Jaunty: Notifications

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:27:37 pm marc wrote:
> For the record, Lindsay, I share your views on MS stuff. I don't
> actually like the products - although XP is 7/10, 

Agreed, XP with SP2 is pretty sweet, At work we've skipped Vista all together 
and are evaluating Windows 7 - looks pretty good.

> imo - but there's no
> denying the effectiveness of their server products in the right hands.
> And there's the rub, most MS admins I've come across are woeful pointy-
> clickers with no depth of understanding

Oh yeah ... We have a large number of clients we have to inteorp with, the 
Asian ones have a chronic tendency to jump the gun. One of them upgraded 
several thousand desktops in one go to Vista Beta One - that was a nightmare 
...

OTOH lots of them run locked down Terminal Server/Citrix environments, they do 
pretty well.

In House we run a mixture, and we're very interested in moving to open source 
web solutions. This is where mono gets a lot of attention. The ability for us 
to deploy a license free blackbox virtualised server (VMWare images etc) is 
very attractive.

-- 
Lindsay
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