[dba-Tech] Deepin Linux

Stuart is right; Linux only has about 85 percent of the business environment and who knows one day it may be 95 percent. ;-)

Interesting aside: The local Ferry Corporation recently converted from Microsoft to Linux. To run its business it used to have a farm of 25 to 40(?) servers which have now been replaced by five Linux servers. According to the fellow I spoke to they now have better reliability and a faster response times.

I have often wondered why there are more ice-cream flavours than Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla...such a waste and so confusing.

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Breen" <marklbreen at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:37:24 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deepin Linux

Hello Stuart,

> And that, ladies and gentlemen is why Linux has such a hard time getting
a pruchase in a
> business environment

I thought the opposite is true, I understand that Linux is on a steady
incline?




On 24 July 2013 06:44, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:

> And that, ladies and gentlemen is why Linux has such a hard time getting a
> pruchase in a
> business environment.
>
> I personally am VERY glad that there are only a limited number of Windows
> desktops so that
> I can talk Susie User through things.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 23 Jul 2013 at 15:55, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Hi Gustav:
> >
> > Variety is the spice of life and these distros are not a stand-alone
> > OSS but more likef a pretty desktop on top of
> > Linux-Debian/Slackware/Fedora and so on. This of course allows anyone
> > with more time than they know what to do with, to crank out their
> > desktops and customize their own working environment to the nth degree
> > and then post it and see if there are other that agree.
> >
> > I personally wish Windows was like that so there would be dozens of
> > desktops for every situation and platform... and easy to exchange if
> > so desired. Microsoft's virtual bare-bones command-prompt server is
> > starting to attract this type of attention and we may have a number of
> > distro to choose from, in the future.
> >
>
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