[ale] Georgia Computing Standards Explicitly Disallow Linux

matty91 at bellsouth.net matty91 at bellsouth.net
Tue Nov 25 21:22:37 EST 2003


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Jonathan Glass wrote:

> Oh yeah.  Great!  I'm not going to be responsible for ./ing the Georgia
> Techhnology Authority!  Look where I work!

./, ./, ./ !!!!!!

>
> :)
>
> I just thought it was interesting that the GTA took the effort to
> explicitly mention Linux.  Is that a sign that there is sufficient
> interest in the Georgia technical community in LInux that the GTA had to
> respond?
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Jonathan Glass
> > Hey, who wants to submit this to Slashdot?
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 20:03, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> >> Jonathan Glass wrote:
> >>
> >> >http://gta.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/3028951Workstation_OS_Standard-FINAL.pdf
> >> >
> >> >Yuck!
> >> >
> >> >
> >>    Who wrote that load of crap? Even if they wanted to go
> >> with Windows they could have written a better document.
> >> Why not at least go with Windows XP? I hope they like
> >> paying massive upgrade fees! Bill and Steve need some
> >> cash! How are they going to push the daily load of
> >> patches to these boxes? I bet they're also going to use
> >> Outlook and Exchange. You can bet that they won't be
> >> configured even remotely correctly. The spam will start
> >> rolling in on the first day and only get worse. Of course,
> >> us  taxpayers will get screwed with the costs because of
> >> their stupidity. I hope someone got a nice new card or
> >> house for this. Sigh....
> >>    I also wonder who these desktops are intended for? If
> >> it's people like secretaries, or general clerks use them
> >> then there is absolutely no reason they need Windows
> >> or Office. Of course, they probably didn't do any testing
> >> or profiling of required tasks. Sigh... How come IT
> >> seems to have a disproportionate share of idiots?
> >> (don't be too fast with those comments by the way) :)
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >>
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