“Linux penguins are braying louder, but companies don’t plan to adopt many of them in the near future. Almost every large company has at least thought about Linux, and some of them are running pilot projects or even day-to-day (albeit nonessential) systems on the open-source operating system. And because the economy is still weak, many tech observers believe that Linux–and its price tag of “free”–will attract more businesses looking to cut costs. At least that’s the theory. Practice indicates something else.” Read the rest of the editorial at ZDNews.
Companies Reluctant to Take on Linux
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Remember, this article is looking at the suit’s point of view. It is the suits that are the last to incorperate a new technology.
Most managers and suits only see the NT side of our network and assume thats all we run. We have been using linux for DNS, Intranet hosting, Printing and Internet Access for over a year but if you ask the wrong person they will tell you we have an NT network.
(you can spot these ppl by their WAP phones)
Well, whatever you do, don’t tell them, or they will get confused and
upset.
Hehe, our managers think our network is so much better after I went round and updated everything. What they don’t realise is I removed NT from the points of failure that were giving us grief, and replaced them with Linux. Before I started their network was failing every week, now it’s up for months at a time. I’ve found more time to do other things instead of the full time job of checking for patches/updates et cetera and applying them to all the NT boxes.
I’ve always believed in putting the resources where they’re needed. Not only has Linux reduced downtime, it has increased stability, security whilst reduced the maintainence overhead and costs. That said, we still need NT for some tasks. I guess in time as the right people in business see the real world benefits of Linux it may become more acceptable at the board level. Strange how Directors think “FREE” means dodgy!