Mac better than Windows?

[brokencrow]

I'm not sure you'd starve on Linux here in the States. But these big shops
like I work in now are usually dedicated one way or the other. Currently I
work in an outsourced IT dep't at a mfg'er here in Shawnee country. The
desktops, the servers, strictly Windows.

BUT, and that's a big BUT, this company does a lot of linux development
(SUSE 10) for their equipment (inventory and machine tools). That part
is not outsourced to us. My unnamed employer does have a Linux division
from what I understand, but I know little of it at this point. I can't say I'm
going to be happy with this job in a few months once the transition's made
from in-house IT to outsourced IT. There's a lot going on and I was able
to come in and hit the ground running. It's very chaotic and busy. I like
chaos.

I know some IT guys in a couple of local gov'ts and Linux is widely used there.
One young cat is Linux-certified and doing well for a municipality of 250,000.
Also, many ISP's and hosters use it. I suspect it's more widely used there
than you think.

[nihil]

Hey, brokencrow, please do not misunderstand me here

SuSE is the Linux route for commerce IMHO, given the recent Nove££/M$ arrangement?

I think that you are otherwise talking Unix? which is proprietary software, rather than open source?

just my £0.02 mate

[brokencrow]

No, I'm talking Linux. Amazon has several warehouses nearby where I work
and a big one in Lexington, KY. My understanding from several employees
I've known there is they use Linux for the most part. Out in the warehouse,
where we would be using a W2K (soon to be XP) machine, they use a Linux
terminal. L-i-n-u-x.

SUSE is not the only commercial route to Linux. I was having coffee one
morning last year with a sysadmin who's put a group of health care offices
into Red Hat gateway/servers. Of course, he wasn't too willing to discuss
other details (this is a rather opaque business when you come down to it).
But then, I routinely talk to a small hosting outfit who shies away from RH,
claiming it is shot full of vulnerabilities since it went proprietary after version
7.

IT is a lot like love: ask 10 people what love is and you'll get 10 different answers.