Linux sucks?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:25 -0600, Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Kunal Shah wrote:
> > For Microsoft, they have policy, if it's the problem of Microsoft, they wont
> > charge you. If its problem of your application, they will charge you
> > heavily.
> 
> Hmmm well I've never been able to get MS to support issues I've had with
> W2K, they have always pointed their finger at a 3rd party driver or tool
> and I've had to chase the problem with them.
> 
> Of course we have never had anything other than what Joe random gets
> when they buy Windows retail for support.
> 
> > 
> > As I said, we could never go in production with Linux.
> 
> Sure you can ... plenty of financial companies are using Linux in
> production to run their applications ... they are just using a
> commercial version.   Talk to IBM if you really want hand holding as
> they are more than willing to walk you though the migration and provide
> support (or Novell for that matter).
> 
> Paul
> 
And in fact IBM provides Linux as one of the supported OSes on many of
the new Power5 servers and supporting hardware.  Commercial versions are
available and doing well.