Linux sucks?

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net>
Sent: Feb 13, 2005 9:24 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Linux sucks?

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.

-----James' Reply-----

And they supply Linux on their fine line of Thinkpad laptops in Europe.  I'm still waiting for them to bring it to the United States.  (If I'm wrong on either count, e-mail me OFF LIST and I will retract this statement in the list.)

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James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!