[ale] Georgia Computing Standards Explicitly Disallow Linux

[Jonathan Glass]

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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