Jaunty: Notifications

[marc]

Lindsay Mathieson said...
> 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.

If I could just convince folk that email != Outlook - why do marketing 
folk say, "We'll send it to their Outlook"? - and off 10Gb+ .pst files, 
and that you don't "just have to have" word/excel/pp, then Kubuntu would 
be more than adequate. I'll cave to the beanies needing excel, though.
 
> > 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 
> ...

You've just trumped all my problems by a few orders of magnitude.
 
> 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.

I'm thinking along similar lines. For the locked down folk, Linux is a 
better bet, imo, and clearly far easier to admin and secure/protect.

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Cheers,
Marc