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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (3253)	7/25/2003 4:22:57 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4907

My brother-in-law designed and managed big Unix installations for several regional retail operations. How can you not like a guy who reads Unix World magazine? They never even considered using NT to replace those point of sale or back office systems. Aside from an ingrained dislike of anything from Redmond, they needed the security and stability you get in Unix as well as the distributed computing ability since they run a great many of their accounting and inventory functions at night over lease lines with programs running over a dozen boxes located all over the chain. Nothing like managing an order system with 7000 vendors. What they didn't need was the high cost of hardware in Sun or HP systems. It was a fairly easy decision to move to Intel/Linux for the hardware savings even while any desktops (those computers sitting on someone's desk) in the offices ran Windows in some variety, you won't find Windows in any of his work stations or servers. BTW Occasionally I help him fix something on his home Windows box. The absence of a ready visible command line irritates and baffles the guy which is the exact opposite of the consumer level user. If I'm working on a consumer PC and I have to drop to a command line (like to reset an IP address or something that is simpler with a few keystrokes) I tell the client to look in the other direction because it scares them silly. -g-