Re: How To Abandon Microsoft
From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/26/05
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:13:40 +0200
Hugo writes:
> Just wait untill you have a few hours without much of a workload, and give
> the instruction; no exactly hard ...
Sounds like you've never had 40,000 desktops to upgrade worldwide.
Upgrades can take many months in production environments.
> You must run a LOT of old out of date software then.
No. I just have actual experience running large and small computer
systems and networks in real production environments.
> I work in the the telecommunications / carrier industry, in our industry
> upgrade is essential for production environments.
Upgrades are essential at some point in every production environment.
But you do not perform them if they are not essential, and you spend a
tremendous amount of time testing them and rolling them out when they
are. Telecommunications is a special flavor of production
environment, so the rules are slightly different in the details, but
the same principle applies.
> But what sort of person would run a single user operating system in a
> network environment?
A single-user OS makes sense on the desktop, even in a network
environment.
> In Microsoft systems a end user can change the operating system itself,
> just load some program or virus and suddenly the machine is destroying
> data or some such nonsense ...
Not when the machine is locked down. NT-based operating systems can
be tightly secured.
> ... all because twenty five
> years ago Microsoft didn't understand that the world would one day be
> networked.
Twenty-five years ago, nobody understood that.
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