Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> | These days, revolution is all about Linux. The word alone has become
> | a catchcry for everything anti-establishment, anti-Bill, anti-licensing
> | fees. If you listen to the hype, it's being used everywhere, in
> | businesses of all sizes, to do everything but make the coffee.
> |
> | Just because everybody's using Linux, however, doesn't mean everybody's
> | happy for that fact to be known, as I found recently while looking for
> | potential candidates for a series of profiles about companies that had
> | made the switch between Windows and Linux, and vice versa.
> |
> | Based on the ongoing enthusiasm about Linux, I presumed it would be
> | simple to find companies just busting to tell how they'd ditched
> | their Microsoft server software and moved onto Linux servers.
> | Everybody's doing it, after all, aren't they?
> |
> | ...Others see Linux as a competitive weapon and don't want their
> | rivals knowing how they've cut their costs -- or that they've taken
> | a promising yet risky migration path.
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> Others see Linux as a competitive weapon and don't want their rivals knowing
> how they've cut their costs -- or that they've taken a promising yet risky
> migration path.
Or their management doesn't want to get cut from Bill Gates' annual
executives dinner party. Or the IT manager doesn't want to risk getting
cut off the invitation list for all those MS developers conferences in
Cancun, Hawaii, etc. Or the IT manager wants to keep his Microsoft stock
options above water.
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Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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