On Thursday 21 February 2002 23:52, Franki opened a hailing frequency and transmitted:
> Although the OS is free, alot of the tools are not yet up to the standard > of comparitive windows apps.. though i hear this a lot from bith linux and windows supporters, i often woder about it. office is a good example, it looks much nicer than open office or thinkfree or the like, and it seems to have many more tools. but in 6 years supporting 4 different OS and 5 different suites, 90% of the extra tools are never used, and over 90% of my support for win/office is "it keeps crashing, and won't restart" where even with the worst crash for any office client on linux, it does restart. and they _very_ rarely crash in the first place. which costs more to support? > So the total cost is this.. either pay for alot of training for staff to > learn new apps that are linux generic.. or stick with windows until linux > version come out... and like many companies are finding, training for the average linux app isn't all that hard. supporting a bunch of windows crash boxes, and patching daily is full time work. after all those years of support work i know windows better than linux. cause i had to. i never had to worry about linux once it was setup correctly. windows i had to reinstall regularly and troubleshot non-stop > so getting MS apps workin is a fast track to getting on alot of > workstations fast. on a weekly basis there are new articles about companies/governments who are changing from msoffice to star office or any ms, to anything else. the ms days are numbered i am not disagreeing with what you say. it is very true. i am just pointing out that it won't take long. > I take my hats off to the programers that do this.. its almost harder > then writing the apps was in the first place. now i disagree. almost? it seems it would be _much_ harder. but then i know 0 programing. > So while it is better to have native linux apps, we don't have access to > the companies that write the most well known windows apps, and everyone > knows that its the apps available that make an OS useful, (thats why osX > for mac wasn't the default os till now.) So untill all the developers > start making linux versions, the quickest way to make linux a favorable > workstation OS is to make windows apps run on it. perhaps we also need to "standup and be counted" so to speak. as long as ms claims a 95% desktop share and no one gives hard facts otherwise, they have a stranglehold. sadly, linux users by nature reject a centralized system, so there will never be an acurate count. -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall..... shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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