On Sat, Sep 06, 2003, burns wrote: >On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:22, Collins Richey wrote: > >> The laughing point he makes is that the new, spiffy M$ Server will not >> run existing M$ applications!!! Why would anyone deal with a company >> like this? > >Oh gawd, what a question. I've been asking myself this for years - and >I'm in the business. > >Mostly I think it's because we now have a generation of IT managers who >don't know anything else and don't want to adopt an environment that >will reveal that.
One has to consider that there's a huge industry dependent on cleaning up after Microsoft failures. Whether it's McAffee and Norton, or the armies of MCSEs who have learned the three ``R'' of Windows, reboot, reboot, reinstall. Remember too that IT manager's compensation is related to the number of droids they have tending the Windows boxen. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ "A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill. Worse, he is incurable." H.L. Mencken _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
