[olug] funny, true but funny

[DYNATRON tech]

mostly what i saw working for the government was sun racks and dell racks.
sun ran solaris and the dell stuff was a mix of linux windows. running our
mission critical hardware on windows is suicide for many reasons. luckily a
lot of people knew that at the time. i'm not sure how it is now.

now that dell makes all their stuff in china, i'm sure there will be a
switch to some other brand. i was contracting when cisco went chinese, and
there were no more dod purchases of cisco at that point.




On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:12 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> I loved the article I read where the government announced it was
> ditching Unix and Linux from their Aircraft carriers and nuclear subs
> in the Navy to shift to Vista, because Vista would make them more
> secure. Whose pocket got greased there?
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "yes, ben. i have worked for DOD.
> > but i'm not sure what that has to do with anything."
> >
> > Well, then having worked for the DoD, I'm sure you know how "in bed"
> > they are with MS products.  Sure, there are some small Unix/Solaris
> > shops around, but the vast majority of desktops/servers/services are
> > MS stuff.  In fact, to get "evil" open source products installed on a
> > desktop these days usually requires some drawn out waiver process that
> > I'm convinced exists to frustrate the requester to the point where
> > they have to buy closed/proprietary software.
> >
> > In my mind, they would be better served rolling their own Linux distro
> > and deploying/supporting that rather than paying outrageous support
> > costs for MS products and the like.
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