[Wylug-discuss] Defence of Linux at work

[Mike Goodman]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:01, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:41:43 Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>> And went onto support the argument by saying that if he could, they
>>> probably wouldn't be able to support it to the same degree because of the
>>> number of flavours of Linux.
>> That's about as true as saying there are many flavours of windows.  Come to
>> think of it, the flavours of windows are probably more of a problem.
>>
>> Anne
> 
> This is true, and on this I don't really have to argue.  (Thankfully I've had 
> very little to do with Vista so far - although Office Vista is already 
> causing backwards compatability issues).
> 
> The problem is that the shear number of companies out there, and their 
> willingness to keep updating their skill-set on different versions of one 
> mail server and one SQL server and one HTTP server.
> 
> I know that Apache is the most popular web server in the world, but if I can't 
> get support for it in Leeds I've lost.

You can. In Leeds, too. Or at worst, very close.
Mike