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Why Microsoft will always be king
avid007:
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As an IT decision maker, the switch to Linux is very much on at the corporate level for cost effectiveness, security, stability and support. Also, (I know not everyone like IBM) IBM are embracing Linux with their Midrange server line such as the iSeries (AS400) which is the platform in use where I work.
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You must be a moron. A smart IT decision? Where do you work? There is no way in hell any company would put up with their execs using Linux. It is just too damn complicated. Plus, there are compatibility issues that would seriously fuck up any big company. Now, if you work for a development company that makes software or something, that is a different story.
As for your AS/400 comments, you are wrong in saying the are "embracing" linux. The only thing that truly differentiates AS/400's is their reliable OS, OS/400 that is the key to their market and they would be foolish to give that up. Its reliability is the reason that banks, hospitals and other zero downtime institutions use them for their critical apps.
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i dont know if this has already been said, because i've yet to take the time to read the two pages of posts, but:
did you know that AD is a ripoff of something called NDS?
i dont quite remember who created this, but i think it was novell.
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I am well aware of that. Embrace and extend. However, it continues to work for MS. BASIC??? Windows (Xerox/Macintosh) IE(netscape)??? POWERPOINT (Harvard Graphics)??? JAVA(Sun)??
That is what makes MS smart and powerful. So, you can't authenticate Windows 2k or XP off of a Novell NDS and have all the operability that you have with AD, that is the point.
So, who cares who invented it, second place is often better than first if first place slept.
-avid007 :cool:
Calum:
quote:you must be a moron
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yes, you must.
Your first couple of posts were ok. hopelessly misguided and ill informed, but pretty bog standard and run of the mill. Now that people have responded to you and given you information, you turn out to be one of those idiots who refuses to believe anything except marketing bullshit.
quote:if first place slept
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Funny how windows has taken 20 years to get where it is today, and by contrast, KDE has been on the go for 5 years, and GNOME for 4 years, and many people think they are superior desktop environments to windows. The majority who use windows have never used anything else, whereas everybody who has used linux or BSD has used windows at some point. Click here for more information on this subject.
HibbeeBoy:
A moron ? Really ? It must be spreading in the AS400 community then as my peers see it as a viable alternative and many of them are dabbling, myself included and I know a few who are going to make the switch and make it work come what may. Everyday I see articles on people making the switch from M$ to Linux. i have only seen one switch away from Linux, Hard Rock Hotels. Maybe Window$ will remain king, it's just that the Kingdom will be getting smaller.
Why wouldn't it work, what compatibility issues do you see ? What makes it so damn complicated ? Are our users such dimwitted fuckwits they can't learn anything new ?
You know something of the AS400 but you obviously don't work with it and you are certainly not aware of IBM's Linux strategy. There are IBM commercials running here that depict the
@(e)Server series and Linux running hand in hand.
IBM are well up for Linux and if you work with the AS400, you have to give that due consideration.
Chooco:
avid is right in saying "it would be too complicated"
go to an office building and look how many stupid people there are. now, if we take those same stupid people and put them on Linux which is not as user friendly for things like printers and stuff like that, do you honestly think they would be able to do it? most people dont even know how to poke around through menus, my brother have no clue how to save pictures from the internet, i have to keep showing him over and over again.
if things that simple trip people up, there is no way they can cope with Linux.
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
avid is right in saying "it would be too complicated"
go to an office building and look how many stupid people there are. now, if we take those same stupid people and put them on Linux which is not as user friendly for things like printers and stuff like that, do you honestly think they would be able to do it? most people dont even know how to poke around through menus, my brother have no clue how to save pictures from the internet, i have to keep showing him over and over again.
if things that simple trip people up, there is no way they can cope with Linux.
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It's true, there are many stupid people who are required to use computers in the work place. So what's the difference between helping a fuckwit with a windows problem and a fuckwit with a Linux problem ? Either way, they need support. Besides, the problem is not the software, it's the users inability to grasp a concept. Are you adopted by any chance ?
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