[Nottingham] Jobs in Open Source?

[Michael Erskine]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:13, Andrew Mason wrote:
> The above reasons you have given are definately not evidence that Linux is
> not enterprise ready. They are simply reasons why its not cost effective to
> replace your wintendo's with GNU/Linux boxes. Which is absolutely fair
> enough and there is no point fixing something thats not broken. However if
> say the mail server died, your backup server was put in place and showing
> strains, I am sure you wouldn't think twice before slotting in a more
> scaleable <Insert Linux/BSD/UNIX MTA here> server. If you were initially
> setting up a network or maybe migrating an old NT4 network or something you
> would quite easily be able to meet all of your requirements with OSS.
> Although if your end users NEED windows the linux servers will still play
> nice so you can use each OS for what suits you best.
>
> Andrew M

Its clear that David's company is rather entrenched with the Windows way - 
lets leave them to sob in the corner while we get on with our restraint-free 
enterprise computing. :)

Only kidding David - our hearts are with you: many of us work in MS houses and 
have to work around the many problems posed by proprietary software that is 
effectively unsupported. I'm personally in the process of migrating an 
NT4/W2K/ADS/Exchange network to Samba/IMAP(Secure) - we expect to save a fair 
bit on license expenditure and stay sweet with the lawyers acting for the 
Business Software Alliance (bless their letigious cotton socks).

Regards,

Michael.