Control isn't a bad thing. How much time during a day
are people surfing the net or bringing in viruses into
a company's network?
--- Bob Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Same thing here.. Its all about the control..
> Before you consider rolling out the latest wise
> terms look at the speed when
> using video, or flash, or shokwave.. or anything
> media related.. They quite
> frankly SUCK.
>
> Bob Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [NF] MICROSOFT WINDOWS OUSTED AT
> CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT
> |SearchOpenSource.com
>
>
> > in response to:
> >>> Surely you can concede that Linux is growing,
> not stagnant or shrinking?
> >
> > MM said:
> >>Not on the desktop is isn't, where most of these
> kids will be working.
> >
> > but they're *not* working on the desktop they are
> using a 'thin
> > client'** -
> > which is my objection to this as a pro-linux story
> ...
> >
> > that and the fact that someone who 'loves the OS'
> apparently can't come up
> > with a script to grant privs
> >
> > ** they don't appear to say *which* client - just
> that 'the OS ... is not
> > built for the thin client'
> > It may be I'm a bit sensitive about 'thin clients'
> - my employers are in
> > the process of rolling out Wyse terminals + Citrix
> to replace 95% of pc's
> > ("what goes around comes around" - but sometimes
> in reverse! - one of the
> > factors that did lead to the takeup of [IBM] pc's
> was that they could
> > replace dumb terminals, and were cheaper. The Wyse
> terminals are now
> > cheaper - but not much, it's really all a control
> thing.
> >
> >
> > Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
> > - AndyD 8-)#
> >
> >
> >
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