[NTLUG:Discuss] what companies are using linux in the dfw area?

[Kenneth Loafman]

I just had a user ask if our VPN into the company was on a Microsoft 
server.  My answer was "Let's see, that would mean that I would have to 
put a Microsoft box directly on internet to protect the other Microsoft 
boxes that were too insecure (by MS's own admission) to be on the 
internet.  Doesn't that sound like a Catch-22 to you?"

He just left, muttering.

BTW, we use Linux and Windows both.

...Ken


Mark Hanna wrote:
> I've contracted/consulted at several companies in the metro area (and elsewhere) and one thing that always amuses me is the number of times I've gone into a place, talked to the CIO or whomever in management and been told basically "Nope, we don't use any of that open source stuff here, I don't allow it" and then I go talk to the actual admins and I find out "Yeah, our [email | DNS | firewall | web proxy | etc] are running on Linux".
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> If I were to make a (barely) educated guess though, I would estimate well over half of the companies that have any kind of IT/IS department implement Linux in some manner.  If the company is using one of the "mainstream" flavors of Unix, the chances of them using Linux rapidly approaches 100%.  When you consider how many companies there are in the metro area, we're probably talking in the low hundreds at least.  
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>>>>jjosburn at hotmail.com 11/09/04 09:47PM >>>
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> general question:
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> what companies are using linux in the dfw area?
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> jim
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