Re: CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time (addition)

Hello, Tom!
You wrote on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:44:21 -0600:

??>> This was only one latest example. Well then it is Linux disadvantage.
??>> It is hard to find competent, not overworked Linux staff. :-)

T> People seem to think GUI means "smart" when clearly all you get is a
T> untrained button pusher who only knows what buttons sit infront of him.
T> On Monday, I had to help a so-called admin get Windows XP Home connected
T> to Windows 2003 SBS. He seemed to think he needed XP Pro... Probably
T> because their was not a button labeled "Connect to 2003 SBS Server"
T> under networking. :-)

In ideal world user should press button labeled "Connect to 2003 SBS Server"
and all should work without user intervention. From this point of view
Windows somewhat closer to this ideal world.

T> Disregarding the fact the setup was not ideal, he was completely stumped
T> and was trying to sell the customer several new workstations with XP
T> Pro. :-)

Did he succeeded? :-)

??>> Why? I'd like to measure this in terms of money, or time, or size of
??>> distributive but not in the count of programs.

T> One of my customers has 475 day uptime, zero maintenance.

I have plenty of same examples with Windows.

One time there will be power failure. After restart his system may stop work
properly. Just because some settings made at the 253 day of uptime exist
only in the memory. :-) I can remember real problem with nntpcache which
worked successfully about year without restart, but was not able to properly
use it's message database (and start crashing until database was deleted)
after admin executed a system restart.

T> I assume you could count part of their electric bill as cost, but other
T> than adding/removing users, setting up additional shares/mount points.
T> Can you say zero downtime? :-)

Year ago i worked in the company where was farm of W'2K3 servers with
Oracle. 475 day uptime? Nothing special.

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