[NTLUG:Discuss] Killing Off Linux: It's All Academic

[Brian]

Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:

> It's sinister indeed, altho' the author mentioned in passing that this had been
> Apple's approach, and it didn't work for them either.  After the outcry in UC
> schools, they're going "behind the scenes" to make all  servers run NT.  Maybe
> an argument for windows on desktops could be made, but on servers?!   Absurd.

I write this on an NT server, after the 4th reboot of the short day (file explorer
keeps getting hung up on a networked drive).  Absurd indeed.

But it appears companies will have to spend lots of $$$ to upgrade their current NT
systems to 2000 or 5.0 or whatever it's called this week.  I predict there will be
a lot of resistance to this latest money grab...

  --Brian