Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:39:11 +0100

Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
> In article <32E699B8.72B3D251@uninetcom.it> Alessandro Suardi <asuardi@uninetcom.it> writes:
>
> Corporate users want to be able to scream "we are paying for your OS
> so run and give us what we ask", they don't want to have to explain to
> their top managers that Linus had a baby and he could not fix the bug
> in the Linux kernel yesterday.
>
> That doesn't mean that commercial software vendors will actually fix
> the bug at all, much less in any reasonable amount of time.
>
> The motto is "if something goes wrong the folks who gave me the OS are
> responsible for that", which will never be true on Linux.
>
> Responsibility does not equate with actually doing anything.
> Microsoft may be responsible for bugs in Windows; does that mean that
> they'll actually do anything about it if you're not a significant
> revenue source for them?

hmm, this is not the first response which appears to assume I am trying
to show the good in "corp users'" mindset.

Those people are braindead. But actually for that reason there is not a
single hope to wake their neurons. If they believe NT can be a server
OS for serious reasons, it's over. I dare supposing that even a massive
project failure could only result in them firing their own tech people.
Unless somebody fires them Linux won't have any way through. And IMHO
a vast majority of top managers is too technically unskilled to take
the right decisions.

I asked for a port of Oracle8 to Linux, if this can tell anything. Never
got any reply from US. 'nuff said.

BTW may 1100 NT servers (sigh) be a "significant revenue source" ?

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

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