[Gllug] QT GUI Project

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:22 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> ps. re. Linux, the original poster might be interested to know that I
> installed and supported Linux systems for an oil company in Aberdeen,
> and the biggest oilfield services company you can think of. The oil
> and gas industry has more Linux systems than you can shake a stick at.
> 
> ps. another bit of advice - and I know this will provoke howls here,
> certify your software for:
> RHEL or SLES
> and tell your customers it will run on CentOS and OpenSUSE
> 
> they are the common distros in use for engineering software. Sorry. I
> know. I should use Debian or Bill Gates will own my soul.

The power industry is much the same.  In safety critical systems, it's
simply not possible to certify closed-source code.

Jason Clifford underestimates the omniscience of bean counters in
today's financial situation!  Businesses of all sorts are making major
decisions based entirely on manpower and price.  

Migration from proprietary software is just one way of making massive
savings.  Jason also underestimates the compatibility of file-types -
the vast majority of businesses do not use the vary latest MS Office -
they can't afford to - and the interoperability of Libre Office (for
example) with Office is, practically, 100%.  MS deliberately screw
around with their file types in an effort to break this, but business
has seen through this. 

The other massive savings are in using older hardware, and breaking out
of the MS upgrade-cycle.  The basic specification for even Windows XP is
astonishingly high!

C.

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