[Gllug] Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Davies Sue]

I haven't always worked in IT, I used to be a Trading Standards Officer, you
know fair trading and all that.  From what I have seen of working with M$
products they breach just about every clause in civil and criminal
legislation that relates to fitness for purpose and description.  

Take NT, we have a corporate strategy to use NT wherever possible and even
when it's not.  We now have an Oracle finance and personnel system that is
supposed to replace the mainframe and be accessible to up to 750 users.  If
you put on more than about 80 people on the servers die, so now having spent
a fortune on it we are going to move to a unix platform (they want sun cos
oracle recommended it - but going on their NT recommendation I'm not so
sure.  All I get told over and over is that the problems are caused by the
app not the os - if so why are so many other people running on unix
platforms without any difficulty.

I have an NT desktop, it's so touchy constantly giving me grief.  I also
have a redhat desktop, it sits there quietly and does what I need, it never
gets uppity or gives me trouble.  

I know I haven't been doing this forever and I know that I don't know
everything but reading that article convinced me that this guy knows even
less than me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sue



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