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<TITLE>RE: [Sussex] Evesham</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Geof,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Morning... :)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Unfortunately home users are an uneducated market who fear</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>anything they haven't seen before.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I consider myself reasonably educated...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>THey will demand windows XP and will react badly to being offered choice. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Currently I would *demand* an MS OS on a machine I bought for home use as I have yet to be convinced that I can get the speed of use (read 'ease of access to lazy features'), compatability and 'hard day at work today' type simplicity that I demand from my home system. I do not care if it can't run as a cluster, I do not want reliability. I couldn't give a bugger about security, My checkbook is in the drawer! </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>What I want, is somethin pretty, What I want is wizards, What I want are messages in bubbles and loads of games that install themselves for me when I wiggle my mouse at them at them.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Don't get me wrong, I want to be able to get under the surface of a web server too. I want a system that I can tinker with, alter, rebuild the underlying kernel (one day :} ). But that is what sets us *apart* from the standard user. It is not what makes us the same.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>AND I can't play Dark age of Camelot on Linux!!!!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>As far as the home market is concerned - it will come once the business desktop comes around to the idea of LINUX - the whole reason people use Windows >at home is because they used it at work - prior to the boom in Windows machines in the workplace (in the age of a relitively few Dos based machines and >lots of UNIX machines with dumb terminals) the most common home machines were Amiga's, ST's and Mac's.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Unfortunately a huge proportion of the IT support staff now have grown up with a GUI environment on their servers. We all know how many cowboys are in our industry. They want the same ease of use from their servers that they have from their desktop. It is that simple (IMHO). Ease of use wins out. Ease of learning the system rules the *real* world.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>For discussion....</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dominic</FONT>
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