[mdlug] Blog of helios: Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tec h In dustry

[David Lane]

At a site in California, I had a heated battle over Windows Vs. Linux on a project that I was in charge of.  I was a Regular staff and there was a contractor managing, My solution would have saved lots of money. Because we were going to flip a pc that was older and use MySQL. 

Instead I was FORCED to use Windows and MSSQL.  The project was a success but every once in a while the ODBC drivers would error out. I still had admin rights to that server, and when the admin staff said that it was my fault as a programmer I spent 3 days looking at my code, I accually made it run faster, but I never found what they were talking about.  

I finally crossed linked the web and data servers and found that I was right in the first place. I showed what I did to find the problem, witch made that admin staff MAD because I had to do their job to show what was realy wrong.  needless to say I lost my admin rights to the TEST and LIVE servers.

Those that chose to move forward in the Linux Era, are generally more open to many different I.T. resources.  in the long run you are more of a resource then those that take the easy path of Windows. I have to admit I have a mixed envirnment at home both Windows and Linux.  I prefer Linux but I conceed that there are many programs that are just just not available for Linux.  

If My business got bigger I would use Linux as much as I could.  Accually I am, my web server is Linux (LAMP).  

That is how Google got big.

David C. Lane




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From: R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:03:40 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Blog of helios: Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tec h In dustry

If these guys wanted to learn Linux and adapt to change, they wouldn't be engaging in violence. 

If they are too lazy to learn something new and a predisposition against Linux, they would not be coming to MDLUG meeting anyway.

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>From: "gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com>
>Sent: Mar 18, 2009 11:26 AM
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>Perhaps this could be a meeting topic.  Could we send out invitations to people who work in PC support to meet with us to talk about Linux?
>We could show them tools that will allow them to better support the PC diagnosis and repair.
>We could help them to understand how they can provide better products to their customers.
>I would suggest that it would only cost about $40 to put a classified ad in the local papers.
>
>---------- Original Message ----------
>From: "gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com>
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>Subject: [mdlug] Blog of helios: Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech In dustry
>Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:45:03 GMT
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>So, how do we enlist the help of people in the PC service industry?  
>How can we find a way to help this person retain his job?
>
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>Subject: [mdlug] Blog of helios: Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech Industry
>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:20:59 -0400
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>Oh
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><http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/03/tempers-flare-as-recession-creeps-into.html>
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