[Watford] If this a dish, it would be sweet'n'sour......

[M Fernandes]

Alain, yes, he was referring to proprietary OSs. It just fascinated me how
large organisations (which I presume have the ability to 'go your own way'
are reluctant to, especially when that approach opens up other avenues
which may not be necessarily open to them if they adopt the proprietary
route.  If you look at this article,
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245353/Moving_a_city_to_Linux_requires_political_backing_says_Munich_project_leader?taxonomyId=122you
can see how, if done properly, you get IT mated to your processes and
it does what it's supposed to do, help rather than hinder.

I also took considerable umbrage at Linux being refered to as "it'll do"
computing.  As long as technology reporters keep propagating these views,
businesses won't be able to understand the wider benefits.

<sigh>... I feel soooo much better now!!  ;-)

Mike


On 5 February 2014 12:44, Alan Secker <alansecker0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The key to its age was this sentence:
>
> "The university's Linux migration "was probably going to happen anyway
> because the bottom line is that the commodity x86 hardware was getting to
> where it could do the job,"
>
> Regards
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> On 05/02/14 11:16, M Fernandes wrote:
>
>> I just came across this article, and thought you might be interested.
>> Linux is certainly going the quiet route to world domination!  :-)
>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244751/As_Unix_
>> fades_away_from_data_centers_it_s_unclear_what_s_next?taxonomyId=122
>> The article is quite old, so, apologies if you've already seen this.
>> AIX was where my Unix/Linux affinity was fostered.  It certainly taught
>> me discipline!
>> Mike
>>
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