Re: I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-07-31 Thread Sesso
Where I work, we have a few thousand servers and about 95% are linux. I have converted almost all of my office guys to linux or Mac minis for desktops. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Eric Oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: well, take a look at craigslist parent company:

Re: I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-07-31 Thread Eric Oyen
well, considering I am most familiar with mac these days, that would be where a lot of my experience would work for me. Still, Linux does have its uses here. I can run it on hardware that OS X won't even look at and windows would just BARG over. -eric On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Sesso wrote:

Re: I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-07-31 Thread Eric Oyen
well, take a look at craigslist parent company: Ebay. Fully 35% of their operation is Linux Centric. Mostly, its the 90,000 or so email and backend servers running in virtual machines (like VMware). THey also run windows on some desktops as well as an active directory infrastructure. However,

Re: I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-07-30 Thread Amy Nielsen
Once again I like learning new things regarding open source, I had no idea Craigslist did any of this. I am realizing how big and widespread Linux and Open Source has become, it is exciting! On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was perusing craigslist and

Re: I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-07-16 Thread der.hans
Am 24. Jun, 2015 schwätzte Michael Havens so: moin moin, well, it's taken me a while to get to responding. Sorry about that. I was perusing craigslist and noticed a link that said 'open source'. Being the ever-curious lad of 44 I clicked the link and wish to share what I found: I was aware

I don't know if this has come up yet but....

2015-06-24 Thread Michael Havens
I was perusing craigslist and noticed a link that said 'open source'. Being the ever-curious lad of 44 I clicked the link and wish to share what I found: quote craigslist is a big believer in open source software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software, and relies heavily