"John Clogg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:9u33kd01j69@enews3.newsguy.com...
> Shawn writes:
> >then don't do it - lots of people are doing it and it works - the entire
> >city of Largo florida has converted to Linux and KDE, the entire state
> >of Oregon is looking to do the same, as is Ford Europe, and then there
> >is Burlington which has been on it for some time, the list goes on and
> >on.  If you don't want to get familiar with it and educated with it,
> >then stick with that you know.
>
> Please reread my post.  I am not saying that companies should avoid Linux; I
> am responding to the notion of "If it lacks a feature you want, write it
> yourself or hire someone to write it for you."  I think most companies
> running Linux will demand that the Linux they run has a company with a
> robust support organization standing behind it.  For that reason, I don't
> believe the "proprietary" model that currently exists for Unix will fade
> away.  Rather I believe that Linux will become increasingly proprietary.
> BTW, have the entire city of Largo, Florida, the entire state of Oregon and
> Ford Europe modified Linux with their own code?

As a side note, HP currently fully supports six Linux distributions on
Netservers.
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Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

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