[Wylug-discuss] Defence of Linux at work

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:48, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Stainburn
>
> <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> >  he could not name one that could support Linux.
>
> IBM and HP really should spend more money on branding ;-)

I know about HP and IBM.  I'm just in the process of buying some new Prolient 
servers to replace the ones that are in at the moment - ironic when you think 
that these are the ones that they're talking about replacing when I haven't 
even purchased them yet.

The support we're on about is on the software / application level.

The scenerio that was put forward was if I get run over and killed  - or even 
worse want to go on holiday.

The non-retail side of our sales lives on our servers.  

The Web service I'm developing using Apache, PHP, Postgresql, AJAX, Javascript 
and Perl controls the sales order life-cycle from Ford Factory order through 
to customer delivery note confirmation for a £90M turnover business and is 
reliant on me not killing myself.

Likewise, without the email service the process would grind to a halt.

The argument is that there are hundreds of companies expert in Exchange, IIS 
and SQL server, but none on Apache,  PHP/AJAX/Perl, Exim/Dovecot.

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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