dude, as much as I love Linux and everything it stands for.... if you have
the bucks, Sun and Netscape HAUL major ass.....
-Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Wandered Inn ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>
To: ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Interested in Linux?
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You're right, but all you've got to do is train them. :)
>
> I joined my current organization a little over 3 years ago. Once I got
> my hardware, I used partition magic to give me some Linux space and
> installed a dual boot of Red Hat. I didn't tell them initially, but
> from that point on, I continued to share my views of Linux and NT (the
> corporate standard). As the lead developer on a small web team, I was
> in the position to make decisions regarding future software (NT server
> was already in place on the web server before I took the assignment).
> So, rather than opt for M$ IIS, I went with Netscape Fastrack. Later
> moved to Netscape Enterprise. Use Perl for cgi. Uwin for decent shell
> tools on my NT box.
>
> Three years later, I just received my upgrade hardware. They're
> learning. It came with NT preinstalled on a 1.5 gig partition, leaving
> me with 8.5 gig to install Linux. Before ordering the hardware, the
> tech called me to make sure that the hardware I got would work with
> Linux. I was able to choose from a couple of different laptop setups
> and video cards. Small steps for a large corporation, but it happens.
>
> I've recently added an Oracle admin/developer to the team and we will be
> needing to add additional webservers. Between my new team member and
> myself, we've convinced them to go with a Unix server. OS has not been
> selected yet. I'm working hard to cover all the angles. It may not end
> up being Linux, but it certainly won't be NT.
>
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> Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
>
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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