On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Bill Stermer wrote: > Some comments: > > Quote from article: > "When I was a developer, I found that about 10 percent of the work you > did was writing new functionality. The rest of the work to build > enterprise-ready technology involved things like the testing and the > upgrade path. The 10 percent is the fun stuff; the 90 percent is the > heavy lifting. We have done a great job of learning what it means to do > the heavy lifting, but I don't think the (Linux) community has focused > as much in focusing on that 90 percent" > > Comment: > I just had a friend the other night try to upgrade a Windows98 system > to WindowsXP. The installer Wizard let him without any complaint. No > warnings about compatibility issues or anything. He then installed a > wireless card with drivers and that install trashed his system. When he > went to recover using the supplied XP tools it further trashed his > system so he could not even boot. He called tech support for the > wireless card and was told it is an operating system error and once he > got that fixed just download the newest drivers from the website. Some > upgrade path, a little more "heavy lifting" type programming all around > would have saved my friend a frustrating couple of days. >
I also wish that every OS would give me the same upgrade path debian gives me. > Quote from article: > "I still believe Linux is an extension of the Unix paradigm. It's a > command-line-focused approach that's not particularly designed to be > user friendly. The Windows approach is very different. Read: windows is not scriptable. > I will say that > the adoption of Linux is likely to be bounded by how many companies are > happy with Unix. Will it have an ability to be persuasive to people that > it's a more cost-effective version of Unix? Yes. For us the key > challenge in 2003 will be speaking to Unix users about why they ought > to use Windows on Intel rather than Linux on Intel." I always thought that it was easier to write a GUI to a scriptable system than to make a GUI system scriptable... Aparantly I was right. Anyway, so far they did a very bad job at this. Their had to stretch the facts really hard to get a TCO study that would say so) Also note: now they try to say that linux is "something of IBM". This strategy will only work until HP will show more public interest in linux ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
