Quote Originally Posted by Puckstop31 View Post
Not really... If the customer wants Linux, the customer gets Linux. We highly recommend staying away from it because of reasons, A, B and most importantly C. But we will continue to support it.

Dan, making $$ in the IT industry has shockingly little to do with technology. The companies who brag about "we use technology X! Because it PWNS" are the first ones to go under.

We are blessedly doing very well right now... Because A, our people rock the casbah, B we have effective processes and process management in place and C, because we listen to the customer and make the tech do what THEY want, rather than shove OUR ideas at them.
You sure seemed butt hurt when I was bashing Winblows earlier.

The place I spend half my time at has 23 workstations, not counting the remote bush stations, only 8 NEED windowz to be productive and to play fair Ill say 10 workstations NEED windoze. They wouldnt need me as much if they didnt need virus mitigation and speed issues because of Windows. Heck once their new full time IT guy rebuilds their hacked together network they wont need me at all.

When the President and COO of the company asked me about switching to Macs for the users that werent reliant on winblowz based programs I recommended Red Hat over replacing their PCs for Macs, they have allot of PCs that are less then a year old all running XP. If Macs would be the cheaper solution I would appreciate your knowledge on the subject.

As for bragging about the technology we use, I dont. Im a Jr tech and its not my place to recommend tech A over tech B.

Now when a shop client wants their data pulled from their broken windows box because they are switching to a Mac for their home system I give them a Ubuntu Live CD at my own cost for them to try as an option before they shell out the ducks for a Mac.

So reason A that you dont recommend Linux IS..

Quote Originally Posted by Puckstop
our people rock the casbah
If that works for you and your clients, AWESOME!! And I mean that, love the Clash.

Reason B is....

we have effective processes and process management in place
Those processes and process managements dont carry over to linux based systems?

Reason C..

because we listen to the customer and make the tech do what THEY want, rather than shove OUR ideas at them.
Well duh, you didnt get to where your at by being a dumbarse.