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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
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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

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