[ale] A fulfilling moment

[Dow Hurst]

Just means the company can put Cxoffice on there for MSOffice or run OOo. 
Thanks for posting that since my mind was in it's usual state.  Blank...

It is still a huge switch since HP is like IBM and lends more exposure.  Goes 
a long way when you can say that your killer new workstation came from Dell, 
IBM, or HP and blows away what they (whoever) have.  :)

I've had an ITS guy initiate a discussion on moving applications from MS 
software to Linux after a sysadmin meeting last Friday where I got to explain 
what my responsibilities are.  Our campus sysadmin meetings are moving around 
campus this year by being hosted by each sysadmin's department so we can learn 
about each other's operations.  I was able to plug the ectasy of Fly-by-Day's 
Linux based firewall's and the joy of using the Dell RH9 based workstation I 
use for modelling that blows away our SGIs.  I talked about VMware and also 
about not having to constantly patch SGIs or Linux machines.  Plugged our VPN 
and how all I had to do with Windows was remind people to update their 
antivirus.  Got him interested since ITS here deals with lots of MS licensing 
issues and security flaws,
Dow


William Bagwell wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 12:40 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
>>I read somewhere, it will come to me and I'll post it, that HP is
>>switching to selling Linux on it's desktops.  Anyone heard anything
>>about this?  I read it last night when doing email but just can't
>>remember the source.
> 
> 
> On this list, posted by Arron last Friday.  Sounds wonderful at first 
> glance, until you read this.
> 
> "Mr Kay said HP's new Linux PCs would be geared toward employees at call
> centres and help-desks who only need computers to use internet 
> applications and e-mail, and [thus have no use for a whole proprietary 
> suite of expensive ancillary applications]."
> 
> Oh well, still a step in the right direction.

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