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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5033 comp.os.linux.misc:33915 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75669 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!psgrain!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:02:09 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3g21kh$l7r@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fjcn4$24u@nkosi.well.com> <3fmi6c$ang@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3fvqbd$6v1@nkosi.well.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3fvqbd$6v1@nkosi.well.com>, Henry Hwong <henryh@well.sf.ca.us> wrote: >Sure. I am in no way dis'ing Linux itself, but, rather, lamenting its >state as a chaos-bred operating system. Fortune 500 businesses want >certain things for their IS departments, one of which is support. >Contracted support. Something you can hold over vendors when you don't >get what you need. Read any recent issue of Linux Journal - support professionals are there, ready to go to work for you... >Another thing they want is a skill that they can either hire (buy) or >train their IS people for. Businesses want to have interchangable people >(it's a harsh, cruel world out there), and, until Linux is used by a >ton of other IS departments, which would create a large pool of people who >could support Linux in a business environment, they aren't going to use it. er - linux is UNIX - most people with a CS degree from a halfway decent college are already familiar with UNIX internals... >Besides, Linux is (*gasp!*) just an operating system. Until Sybase, Oracle, >or Informix port their products to Linux, why use it? Porting is beginning to happen - >: I have been looking for ways to move more and more services from Sun >: machines to linux machines, emboldened and encouraged by the spectacular >: successes and rock-solid reliability I've seen so far... > >Stability should only be one factor when moving platforms. You should also >consider what support you're going to get, as well as the cost of training >your people on the idosyncracies of Linux. idiosyncrasies (?) It looks like UNIX to me - something like BSD, with a few things from SYS V here and there.... As I mentioned, training is minimal for anyone knowledgable of UNIX... jjs -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!