[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Sean Edwards]

Do you need any help with that?

-=Sean=-

--- Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> How many boxes are you talking about??
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
> 
> >>> tmelcher at trilogytel.com 05/07/04 15:26 PM >>>
> My company is still using Win98, on 450 - 900Mhz
> boxes.  Havent seen anys
> need whatsoever to upgrade to XP....all our servers
> and systems we support
> are Linux/Unix/SCO, Hopefully by the end of this
> year we will replace every
> desktop we have with laptops(running Linux)....then
> we will be Microsoft
> free.
> 
> Trent
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Dave
> Hull
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:02 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Microsoft is out of control!
> 
> > >>> phil at brutsche.us 5/6/2004 >>>
> > thehaas at binary.net wrote:
> >
> > How many people are going to sit around with their
> current machines 
> > for
> > 3 years?  I know I won't.
> > --
> >
> > Phil Brutsche
> > phil at brutsche.us
> 
> Three years? Before I had two kids to support a
> three year replacement cycle
> was more than reasonable. Now, the fastest Linux
> server in my basement is
> six years old and still working fine. Even my laptop
> is closing in on 3.5
> years and I won't be replacing it anytime soon.
> 
> Within the next year, my work will be throwing
> machines away that a superior
> to the hardware I'm running at home. I feel a
> dumpster dive coming on.
> 
> --
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
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