Linux Adoption Barriers 3262

Oh all right, but I don't see why you place any stock in that, ray:

"We evaluated Windows against Linux separately for both back-office servers and POS terminals, and Windows was the more cost-effective option in each case," says Ron Cook, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer"

"Heideker says: "Windows Server 2003 offers the decisive cost advantage over Linux. We can capitalise on existing infrastructure and the established knowledge of our IT staff and end users. Microsoft also offers us far greater economy and choice when it comes to recruiting additional IT professionals in the future."

"A new IT chief with deep UNIX and Oracle roots launched a serious investigation into migrating the bank to a Linux-Oracle platform. However, analyses showed that Linux costs would be at least 20 percent higher than those in a Windows environment. Cole Taylor chose to migrate its 100 server computers to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and make SQL Server 2000 its database standard, decisions that have led to lower costs, higher security, lower business and legal risk, and faster time-to-market with new services."

What on earth is an "IE-specific solution"? I use a browser a lot and I have found that they all work pretty much the same. IE, Firefox, even the Mozilla and Konqueror that came with some linux installs. The new IE7 is pretty handy, too, its frame takes up less space on the screen with a much more compact header than Firefox so you can get more info on the screen for the same size of monitor. Sweet. Comes with Vista, I hear. But you can download it now. Automatically.

Well maybe someday, ray, but the Microtel boxes are just cheapo. Have you taken a look at them?

Netware for one. :-) It didn't have much of an effect on Windows other than to maybe help it become the mainstay.

I remember the early Windows days, with 3.0 and 3.1 wherein we had to buy a package from Sun for NFS and a package from Beame&Whitesides for the TCP-IP. Together I remember it costing around $250 per station so that we could connect Windows machines to a Sun server. Some guy invented a file pbutting message system so that the PCs could send info back and forth by reading and writing files. It got better later when Win95 and NT4 came along with TCP-IP and sockets built in. Cost some companies their business, though, I don't think the network folk ever recovered. It's all free now.