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Re: ARE YOU CRAZY!
by Ralf Habacker on Thursday 01/Aug/2002, @00:51

Why,
do you not know that some company have IT rules, which defines the type os operation system ?

I have a real example of a german company with 150.000 employees, in which desktop system have to be windows. If I would tell them to use linux, the will ask me "What about the costs for re-educating all the employees" and "What about all our running applications, could we use them under linux ?" And today the linux desktop isn't ready to migrate immediatly. What about all the administrators, who have knowledge only about windows ? They need time to learn linux, so my strategy is to adopt linux as server platform, so that the administrators have time to learn, how linux works and second to provide linux applications (through cygwin and kde) onto the windows desktop, so that the user s can learn how it feels and how it works. If the admin are ready to admin linux and the users feel comfortable with linux application, is seems easy to pull away the underlaying os, isn't it ?

Of course, there may be brute force way to bring linux to the users, but I feel more comfortable with this described way, additional because, as I know, companies does not change it's desktop structure very quickly.

Regards
Ralf

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Re: ARE YOU CRAZY!
by atomico on Tuesday 30/Nov/2004, @05:27

I completely agree with Ralf. I will describe the environment where I work:
Huge company (50.000 employees). I work in a R&D unit where we develop telecomms software. Although our sw runs in a 'sort of' UNIX environment, we are forced to use windows in our desktops. The only solution if you want to have your trusted command-line tools? Cygwin.
Furthermore, I have discovered that running X on top of Cygwin beats much more expensive X-windows clients. My company licenses one called 'ViewNow', which is terrible.
Would I be happier with a modern Linux distro? No doubt.
Is it realistic to expect it too happen? Not until Microsoft Project and many other tools run there.

I am impressed by the great job done with Cygwin. Thanks a lot!
Regards,
/atomico

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