[AccessD] Interesting Laptop / Vista commentary

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Dec 2 01:48:23 CST 2007


But it can run OpenOffice or just use WINE to run a specific package. I use
Wine on an old beater box so I can still support a client still using A97.
Most clients that run Linux are running it as a server and use WindowsOS as
desktops or they are deploying some large web or database apps.

The local government uses, almost exclusively, Oracle to handle all their
big DB applications. Two applications that I wrote, that used MS SQL 2000,
on a Windows2000 server, as a BE were replaced with Oracle, at a great loss
in performance, functionality, dramatic cost out-lay to deploy and support,
with the displeasure of the branch because of the government's
standardization of Linux and Oracle.

Jim  

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
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But Linux can't run Office, yes?

Rocky
 




 	
	

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
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Yes John: That article is sad but the true... My current lap top, that does
have 2GB of RAM on it is my only Desktop (top of the line Toshiba as of last
spring) that could run Vista and the graphics is still second tier.

During the last 6 months I have been installing OSs on a variety of systems,
for a variety of continental wide chains and banking groups. Without
exception they are all using Windows2000 and sometimes Linux. The company's
senior IT people do not even trust XP and merely laugh when Vista is brought
up and suggest it is no more than a pretty but unstable desk-top toy.

I hope MS gets their business together before they find themselves competing
one on one with various flavours of Linux. I use to be able to make a fair
bit selling MS network installs but no more.

Jim  

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222303,00.asp?kc=EWKNLBOE120107STR1

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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