"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. -- Greg Cagle gregc at gregcagle dot com * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *