On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:21:09PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > >Now, what I'm trying to get at here is this simple fact: Linux and > >Microsoft can get along - and get along quite well together. I went <snip> > Absolutely. In my university most of the servers run Linux. They used > to have a bewildering variety of server OSs, including NT, but Linux > started taking over a few years back (Mandrake 7.2!) and now all your > base are belong to us (except for a couple of stubborn Solaris servers). > For workstations/PCs, the majority of students and staff run Windows > (mainly 98, with a few XP boxes, probably installed illicitly by users) > the scientists and techies generally run XP or Mandrake, and the arty > types have a few Macs. In my own office, all the boxes run Win 98, > except for mine, which is running Mdk 9.1. It runs the printer and FTP > server, and every night it backs up all the Windows boxes and checks > them for viruses.
Sorry for hijacking this thread but . . . I need suggestions for selling folks at work (a technical college) that Linux should be part of our IT curriculum (especially the web development/e-commerce part). They want to keep everything Windows, .net, .asp, java; I'm not faculty but would like to point out the folly of a Windows-only approach. What can I cite (that is not hyper-biased) other than the Netcraft surveys showing over 60% of web servers run Apache? It was only after making a presentation to some higher-ups that I was able to put pressure on our IT manager to let me run a Linux server to solve some problems we were having. The theme here is that folks here are ignorant about Linux. I mean, can you imagine an IT program in ecommerce that didn't at least cover publishing on a *nix server? But then again, we always upgrade to the latest M$ Office suite on the grounds that it's what businesses use. I tell them that if they wanted to teach what businesses use, we should really do a survey and see what businesses are using--around here, probably Windows 95 and Office 97! Todd
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