Re: DHS and M$

2003-07-19 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:35:53 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are forgetting the ease of use question. Let's see. Oh, yeah, OpenOffice is incredibly hard to use because: 1. it runs on UNIX (thought it ran on Windoze too) 2. morons can't figure out how to start it because the

Re: DHS and M$

2003-07-19 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:57:17AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: did I miss anything? Yes, you did. The IS professionals they are going to hire don't know squat about anything but windows. Thus, they will need to buy MS boxes with everything pretty much set up for them. Besides, Homeland

Re: DHS and M$

2003-07-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:23:03AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:57:17AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: did I miss anything? Yes, you did. The IS professionals they are going to hire don't know squat about anything but windows. Thus, they will need to buy MS boxes with

Re: DHS and M$

2003-07-19 Thread tom marinis
--- Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:57:17AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: did I miss anything? Yes, you did. The IS professionals they are going to hire don't know squat about anything but windows. Thus, they will need to buy MS boxes with everything

Re: DHS and M$

2003-07-18 Thread Joel Hammer
You are forgetting the ease of use question. Do you think think the average govt employee would be able to handle a unix/linux box? Guess who makes up a large percentage of govt workers in DC? For example, do you think that guy you quote on your signature would be able to configure and use a