excuse for not using Linux

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:19 am Post subject: excuse for not using Linux

I work for a pro-microsoft company. Here's the excuses I've heard:

- "If we put Linux on here, and I'm not here, no one else will know how to do things on them if they break."

- "But we use ASP."

- "What's that?"

You know, maybe if they used Linux/UNIX, they wouldn't be fixing things just "just break"....

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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

there is an Apache::ASP module. It seems to work fine except when i used it (Late 2000) it gave no useful debugging info. That may have changed since then.

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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:52 am Post subject: Re: excuse for not using Linux

nbg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 77

The lack of a decent directory service is my excuse.

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whats that nbg?
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ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject:

LDAP?

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jlg · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject:

one of my favorite is:

Linux is not ready for the desktop because its not 100% compatible with windows.

LOL!!!

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ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

I'd like to remind you all of something. A school never has people in IS/IT who know ANYTHING.... EVER.... PERIOD... (at least in my experence)....

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idl · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject:

doug-x07 · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 12:25 am Post subject:

I once heard a good one from an it director of a financial services company. He basically said that if we used linux (debian) instead of hp-ux, solaris or NT that would mean that whenever something broke or crashed he would be directly accountable and responsible for it. With proprietrary stuff he could just say it's an nt/solaris/hp-ux problem whenever they came across a particularly nasty problem and the company are looking into it. A case of pass the buck to the editor and let them take the flak, that's what they are paid for. That way the decision makers are happy, the editors get more work, nobody is ultimately responsible and nothing gets solved.
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Vancouverite · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 2:07 am Post subject:

Speaking of directory services, has anyone here tried Novell's eDirectory for linux? (in a production environment or something similar). I've worked with Novell servers for quite a while and know they can be very secure and massively scalable if properly configured. They deliver file and print services like a trooper. There is all the weirdo windows problems... something stops working for some reason, you get it fixed but what went wrong is a great mystery.. maybe solar activity? Intense neutrino bombardment? Uranus rising during the age of aquarius?

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Can O' Beans · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 50

We have 2-3 people here at work that know Unix/Solaris. I asked one of them what they thought about Linux/Open Source in our workplace and the excuse he thought the IT dept felt was that of the Open Source aspect. They would need someone knowledgeable enough to examine each & every piece of source code to make sure no backdoors, etc.. were in it.

<shrug> THey just love wasting money on Windows licenses here. We got a "network" PC that just site there and pings 6 toublesome routers to make sure they're up (will be replaced someday.... :roll:

) They paid for another license just to have 6 dos windows up, pinging the routers.

taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 10:32 am Post subject:

I have found that most companies use calander sharing....

is there a linux equivilent ?

linux can serve files, printers, internet, act as a firewall, and webserver, and others.. but this one thing I haven't found a solution for..
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