John McKown wrote: > Yes, YOU will take Linux over Windows, as would I. Are you the decision >maker? Unfortunately, in many cases, the decision makers have a herd >mentality. I remember when it was "Nobody got fired for buying IBM.". >Now it is "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft."
Well, OK, but there's a mighty big (and still fast growing) Linux herd. There's plenty of market research data on that from Gartner, IDC, etc. Your particular company may be different -- maybe your herd got separated from the bigger herd -- but there's no lack of big herd here. Maybe three to five years ago, maybe. Actually if you do a quick Google search -- and if the results are consistent :-) -- you'd see that, indeed, there are plenty of people who got fired for buying Microsoft. My Google says Cardsystems, National Westminster Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and the unnamed CIO in the story I posted not too long ago, among others. You don't buy Linux, so it's impossible to get fired for buying Linux. (Or maybe you should always get fired for buying Linux because you don't have to buy Linux. :-)) You buy (or don't buy) Linux support. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
