Interesting, isn't it? For the people on this list, Linux is pretty much a
part of everyday life, but for the vast majority of businesses, I feel safe
saying it just doesn't exist.
Of my four current and former employers, for the latter three (the ones I
have information):
* I was the first or among the first person to pursue the use of Linux
* At one, it is banned from the site network because it is considered a
security risk (go
figure)
* At another, OpenVMS/Alpha+VAX, Solaris/Sun, and IBM were the primary
server platforms and
Linux has never been considered for production use by the home office
management.
At about the time I was beginning to work with Linux heavily, the
company dumped a HUGE pile
of money on a Sun cluster. A few months later, layoffs and the eventual
sale of the company
by its parent ensued.
* At current employer, Linux is "on the map" but the only Linux servers in
place so far are
the ones I have set up for my own inscrutable purposes ;-) A few other
people have Linux
systems working on either desktop or laptop hw.
Of my non-ALE friends in the Atlanta area, one is a sw developer, another is
a structural engineer, another works for an automated teller machine
servicing company, and another is a manager for a teleconferencing company.
Of these, only the last one has any Linux action going. Of the others,
Linux is either a distant buzzword or is simply not on the radar.
So, as far as my little personal universe goes, Linux is still "emerging."
What I find both fascinating and frustrating is how much good Linux could
have been put to in the various places I've worked and in other
organizations I've come into contact with. I think of the corporate mail
systems completely hosed by Exchange/Outlook-vectored Windows viruses, the
crashy file servers, the people who get locked into about six different MS
products and can't swap out a single one of them, the escalating per-seat
cost of all things Microsoft, etc. and I think, my gosh, what we (ALE) could
do if we were loaded onto a bus and driven from company to company just to
"fix" everything.
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robbie Honerkamp [mailto:">robbie@opus.shorty.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 4:31 PM
> To: Ibis East
> Cc: '">ale@ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] Interested in Linux?
>
>
> Thus spake Ibis East (">ibis@sgi.com):
>
> > Attend SGI Linux University and learn more about harnessing
> this emerging
> > operating system for your organization. Whether you're a
> technical user or
> > an IS/IT decision maker, invite your colleagues and come to
> SGI Linux®
> > University. Learn more about this emerging operating
> system, culture, and
> > the importance of Linux at our FREE 1-day event.
>
> This is kind of amusing- four or five years ago Linux would have
> been an 'emerging operating system' when it was first starting to
> cross into mainstream server use. I'd hardly call it one now.
>
> Robbie
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