[ale] IE for Linux

[Josh Murrah]

Linux is the backbone for most of our store management systems...  

where I work (page in development) : http://www.inalt.com/~jmurrah/inalt/


Josh Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah, ICQ 4613433
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Jason Boyles wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Josh Murrah wrote:
> 
> > Not that I'm
> > against M$ building IE for linux, maybe more ignorant IS managers will say
> > "what's this -linux- thing?  I see that M$ supprts it, it must be good"
> 
> 	There is perhaps some truth to this. Some of the management I work
> with see Microsoft as the source of all computing innovation. In their
> eyes Windows NT is fresh, exciting technology, and Unix is old, stale, and
> destined for the trash bin.
> 
> 	Several times I've spoken to managers at my place of employment
> who, upon reading Microsoft's NT white papers, were aglow with excitement
> about all these new technologies MS is putting in NT. Like demand paging
> of executables, virtual memory, memory mapped files, dynamic linking,
> pre-emptive multi-tasking, &c.
> 
> 	If it weren't so depressing I'd laugh.
> 
> 	Many of the database application developers with whom I work have
> unrealistic expectations of NT. They have begun to blame their problems
> with database lock contention (and anything else) on the OS upon which the
> database runs, namely UNIX. "If our server were on NT we wouldn't have
> these problems!"  has become their mantra. Their management believes them,
> despite lack of evidence.  The hype is working. 
> 
> 	While Linux has been extremely useful in my job, my management
> views it askance, even though they are among the most stable machines we
> have, with uptimes of hundreds of days, compared to tens of days, which is
> the record for our NT servers. 
> 
> Do any folks here have any experiences with Linux in the workplace?
> Is Linux accepted in many workplaces? Or outlawed, for that matter.
> 
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> Jason Boyles <jason at alltel.net>
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