On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Herbert Wengatz 42850 wrote:
> Hi, Tim!
>
> After we all were trying to give you some informations of better
> quality than what was "revealed" by this dumb NT-Magazine, I'd like
> to know wether it had some impact on your pointy-haired boss.
> I guess there are a few out here, which would like to know as well.
>
> On the other hand, I'm happy to announce, that though here where I do
> work (a big german bank) NT was pronounced as the "strategical solution
> of the future" and there currently vast amounts of NT-freaks running
> around here and trying desperately to keep their systems alive for
> more than one week, there was a request from an internal technical
> departement for "evaluating" Linux for use in the bank. We currently
> do a lot of our work with Suns under Solaris, so there is great hope
> for the UNIX fans here, that there is a chance to get NT kicked out
> again. The odds are with us. The guys which have to do the "Evaluating"
> are "pro-Linux" as well and even wanted to "evaluate" Linux, but didn't
> dare to mention it, because the official saying was "NT, nothing else".
> Now they have got the official order to evaluate Linux! :-))))))
>
> I hope I can give you some more positive news after the evaluation is
> done!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Herbert
>
My personal favorite quote, somewhat paraphrased:
NT is _not_ the answer. NT is the question. _NO_ is the answer.
:)
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