[ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

[Ned Williams]

Have you messed around with winbind at all? I found it somewhat useful for
working with AD and linux machines. Might make the authentication peice of
the shared mountpoint stuff a little easier?

Ned Williams


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM, <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
> > Lightner
> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 09:35
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile
> >
> > The main problem is shops that primarily use Windows for the desktop
> > have, not surprisingly, Windows admins who have little or no clue about
> > Linux and don't really want to learn.
> >
> > Unless an organization is willing to dump not only existing technology
> > but existing admins (or do significant retraining of the latter) the
> > hurdles to switching are fairly large.   Add to this the veiled threat
> > that M$ has about doing "corporate audit" when you start talking to them
> > about why you don't need their support any more and even management that
> > would like to switch has a tendency to decide not to bother.
> >
>
> I see your point although it doesn't apply to us. All the admins here do
> multi-platform support so it's not as traumatic. Also most departments on
> campus are multi platform so there is a great deal of interest. We can be
> the proving grounds to get it working. There is an old adage in marketing.
> You don't have to be good to get market share, you just have to exist.
>
> I've been on the receiving end of "retaliation by audit" (not by Microsoft)
> and it was really unpleasant. We came out clean so there were no
> repercussions but it did chew up a good bit of time.
>
> keith
>
> --
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280
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