Re: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:59:06AM -0800, dgoulet_at_vicr.com wrote:
> OH, talk about cruel and unusual punishment!! For the fish that is.

It is interesting that so many people feel this way and yet the topic is reduced to joking, as if it is not possible (or really desirable) to replace technology. MVS systems programmers couldn't envision life without an IBM mainframe a few years ago. I asked the desktop question because we are exploring this path due to huge budget issues and the million dollar invoice to M$ is due. I wanted to see if the Oracle world had anything going on the topic. Guess not.

Star and Open Office advances seem to be milestones in this arena. I believe we will move some % of our admin desktops to linux this year as a pilot. Departments can't afford the price of upgrading their office software, they will try the open versions to see what happens.

Interesting bullets:

The EU is studying the conversion of member goverment desktops:

www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/einsider/RTGAM/20021104/gtopenms/einsider/

 The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (U.S.) contract to  U.K.-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of  moving the information systems of several member countries'  governments to the Linux operating system from Microsoft's Windows  OS.

www.netproject.co.uk/opendesktop.html

 "The USA National Security Agency's white paper 'The Inevitability of  Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing  Environments' should be read by all who are concernd with achieving  secure systems that enable e-business. This is at  www.nsa.gov/selinux/inevit-abs.html."

...waiting for the 9.2.0.2 patch to finish on my Mandrake 9 desktop (see, it's not off topic! ;)

> Dick Goulet
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: "Gogala; Mladen" <MGogala_at_oxhp.com>
> Date: 11/14/2002 1:38 PM
>
> Well, once upon a time there was an event called Boston Tea Party
> which dealt with too expensive product of low quality delivered by
> a monopoly. I wonder whether we can expect Seattle Windows Party?
> Would that be too cruel to the fish in Seattle harbor?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:44 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re:RE: dumping microsoft desktop?
> >
> >
> > David,
> >
> > Just like beauty, winning or loosing in a lawsuit is in
> > the eye of the
> > beholder. Actually in MicroSlop's case it was the justice
> > department that
> > bailed and more than likely King George who sat on the judge.
> > You got to love
> > those political action committees and their BIG donors!! In
> > politics money
> > talks louder than anything else.
> >
> > Dick Goulet
> >
> > ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> > Author: David.Schmoldt_at_gazettecommunications.com
> > Date: 11/14/2002 12:15 PM
> >
> >
> > > Both answers a are expected to be "No". The lawsuit is
> > > expected to be dropped. But who knows. They won
> > > antitrust case after all.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
> >
> > I know it *seems* like they won, but Microsoft actually lost
> > the antitrust
> > case. :-(
> >
> > Dave
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