Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What kinds of business use Linux? Date: 19 Apr 2011 16:58:41 GMT Organization: ....little, if any Lines: 56 Message-ID: <915ta1Fv25U10@mid.individual.net> References: <4dadb477$0$10547$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> X-Trace: individual.net don/8ZUs1DC7DD5J5qUUXAO3vlDpupBkZ/9O5+ogY6/RryJiIF Cancel-Lock: sha1:cIUK3NI5Xv/6I3Iq65NbS8BhQuc= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-24 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:820 On 2011-04-19, Stan Bischof wrote: > Good luck. Bottom line of course is, well, your bottom line. > You need to decide if your preferences are more important > than income and your customer's preferences/needs. > > Very few end users choose an OS ( or care anything about it ) > but rather choose tools and those tend to dictate the OS. Nonsense. Braindead managers pick OSs and software with no more clue than a cow in a pasture. > For example graphic arts folks tend to end up on Apple > since that's hwere the "best" software lives. A long dead myth. > Most business software runs on Windows so that's where businesses > end up. Again, cuz mgrs are morons. > Servers tend to be Unix in the old days, Linux in the > modern world. That's cuz they're both similar and they both work better. > That's just the way it is. > So in answer to your query- look for businesses with server > farms and not a lot of desktops. ISP's come to mind, certainly > "dot com" folks. I worked for a major Fortune 500 high-tech company for enough years to see the transitions through both good and bad. When I came in, the company was unix and mainframe based. Later, LANs became the norm, but still on the unix company-wide database. Later, an all M$ experiment further fractured one of the company's divisions, with millions wasted on custom Windows based software and the trashing of several all Apple depts. One manager bought an entire software solution based on an old college roomate's involvement. Employees actually quit over the poor choice. The company was in IT turmoil when I left. In the 10 yrs I was there, M$ never improved one single situation and created dozens of problems. The only advantage I ever saw was the adoption of AutoCad over more costly unix based CAD alternatives, but that later became a problem in itself. Most upper mgt has secretaries, so are not bothered by actual in-the-trenches solutions. They make choices based on personal preference and whimsey. Even upper IT mgt are cursed by their employees. M$ never came to dominate business because it was a better choice. nb