[TriLUG] Vista

[Tim Jowers]

You think that' s bad?  Have you tried..... Vista?

:-)

Seriously, it sucks compare to Fedora or Ubuntu. Heck, even XP sucks
compared to them too.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
chris at webperformance.com> wrote:

> Absolutely.  Apache is a great example - and it is one of those
> real success stories (along with Linux, Tomcat, Subversion and a
> number of others).
>
> My point is that from the larger perspective of the business, running
> a web server has a cost associated with it. The purchase price of the
> OS / server software is only a small part of the TOC. We use CentOS
> and Apache.  We pay someone else (on this list) to do most of the
> maintenance.  We certainly feel that we're paying less than if we
> were running a Windows/IIS server...but not much.  We simply LIKE
> Linux/Apache better. I cannot say the same about a lot of OSS stuff.
> Bug-tracking solutions for example. Bugzilla sucks. Really badly.
> I can't imagine forcing our customers to use that, or any of the
> others we've seen compared with Jira. Well, now I'm really off on a
> tangent so I'll stop!
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Jason Watts wrote:
> >> I think this is a perfect example of how/why FOSS hasn't penetrated
> >> into the business world in some places.  I know people here care
> >> about how the software is sold or distributed, but as a businessman,
> >> I don't give a crap about free or open source. I want good value.
> >> I want a solution to a problem that is reliable and cost-effective.
> >> That does NOT mean free...because there's no such thing.
> >>
> >  Yep, I agree to this.  people feel that free means no support, open
> source
> > means the code is available for the hacker's eyes.
> >
> >
> >
> > but to say this, means your company doesn't like or use Apache?
> >
> >
> >
> > I know the answer... new free software as well as new paid for software
> > needs to go though its testing phase before it is excepted.  and this is
> > hard because no one wants to test free when it is half the time poorly
> > supported by its creators.
> >
> >
> >
> > (please don't read this as me saying your wrong or anything of that
> sort...
> > I'm just pointing out a good widely used business level program that is
> > fairly main stream )
>
>
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