Operating system being displaced: LXer knows!
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| hkwint Apr 26, 2011 12:02 PM EDT |
The article mentions "it's not sure which operating system is being displaced". Of course, long time LXer readers know! We still have a 'migration database' on LXer of companies using / switching to Linux, http://lxer.com/module/db/viewby.php?uid=108&option=&value=&... but it's not maintained anymore as today it's no news some company is switching to Linux. However, I still remember adding LVM to the db myself, so I knew they were already running Linux! The DB still links to the 2005 story: Red Hat scores another Linux victory Let me quote from 2005: "The systems involved account for all of LVM's desktops, except for a small number of Windows machines needed to run certain specialised applications, LVM said." So no, I think TechWorld is wrong about them 'probably running an old version of Windows': These Ubuntu systems are RedHat converts! |
| tuxchick Apr 26, 2011 12:43 PM EDT |
Quoting: Few businesses buy Windows out of great love for Microsoft so much as the belief that Redmond is a rock of relative stability in an industry in which companies have in the past come and gone, leaving applications unsupported. Oh, it's satire! Since nobody who knows the industry would say that with a straight face, as every Windows release has left a broad, long trail of wreckage composed of unsupported software and hardware, and yet MS customers still pay up and replace year-old peripherals and PCs, and re-buy software upgraded with the magic line of code to make it work with the newest Windoze. Must be a Stockholm syndrome kinda deal. |
| gus3 Apr 26, 2011 3:37 PM EDT |
Really, how many "businesses" (their executives, actually) know the IT industry? Ah, there's the rub. |
| cr Apr 26, 2011 3:44 PM EDT |
Carla, are you saying that Microsoft is StockHolmIT? |
| tuxchick Apr 26, 2011 4:59 PM EDT |
Quoting: Carla, are you saying that Microsoft is StockHolmIT? why yes, now that you mention it! :D |
| hkwint Apr 26, 2011 5:14 PM EDT |
Quoting:That said, last year the Swiss canton of Solothurn went back to Windows 7 after hitting turbulence in a long-running Debian/GNU migration. There were special circumstances Definitely joking, entitling a bag of (discount-)money and another visit by S. Ballmer (who uses to ski in Switzerland) as "special circumstances". |
| gus3 Apr 26, 2011 5:20 PM EDT |
Demonstrating, once again, that there is little difference between Microsoft and a drug dealer. |
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