[ale] my company and linux

[C I]

These are not IT guys!! just about every IT pro I know
and respect that is worth their salt likes Linux and
at least has one box doing something in the corner. 
Now a days a Mixed environment is the best.
CI


--- Stephen Turner <artic_knight at yahoo.com> wrote:
> why wont the company i work at use linux? well the
> IT
> dudes reply; 
> 1 with linux you have to enter some information to
> get
> it to work on the network with windows 2k you just
> install and plug it in. 
> 
> 2 if anything goes wrong with linux its extreamly
> hard
> to troubleshoot since its open source, and no tech
> support so once you do get someone who knows what
> they
> are doing on the phone they still arent sure cause
> its
> probobly been modified,
> 
> 3 i would have to go back to school to learn it and
> its steep learning curve presents a problem
> 
> now i would like to add that if you check my posts
> in
> the past i have PROVEN to be an air head! HOWEVER i
> dont see a steep learning curve. Seems like common
> sense from a programmers point of view :) not to
> mention this is just servers we were talking about,
> you set them up and then with norten utils make a
> mirror image, linux seldome needs to be touched am i
> right? and if it gets screwed load the image! it
> cant
> be that difficult to run a network with linux can
> it?
> i dont see why it would be. hell im considering
> getting a few server quality computers soon and
> checking out this morbious? cluster software debian
> has :) just purely for a power trip i guess :D
> 
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