1. You will no longer be bothered by vendor software upgrades since they will not be compatible with your computer, since most vendor software is written to run in Windows.
2. Your hand writing and mathematics skills will improve greatly since you will now be communicating the old fashion way.
3. By embracing the opinion of an English major, writing for a tech publication, but who would rather be writing for a mainstream media operation, you will be viewed as someone no one will want to do business with.
Using Linux for business makes no sense at all, unless you do not plan on having customers.
Tell that to the young lad from IT of a small machine shop I met in a class over 3 years ago. He went with either Early Ubuntu or Red Hat and was running CNC cutting etc and the entire office off this OS to save money. I lost touch with him, during the auto downturn I hope their customer base was non DCC-GM centric and I hoped they survived.
...says the person who obviously has no clue about what he's talking about.
Wow, my business uses linux. Of course, being in telecom, Windows doesn’t really work to well. Perhaps if you write a lot docs and don’t need a system that can run high throughput, Windows might be for you.
[Using Linux for business makes no sense at all, unless you do not plan on having customers. ]
Well then, I guess I should shut down my Linux box where I run all my websites and my real estate database. I’m only down to a handful of apps that are Windows only (my MLS link through Internet Explorer, and some Word documents which I could use in OpenOffice, actually, that’s about it).
I do our office programming in Java and mysql with Netbeans for the development environment, that alone will save $10s of thousands over the years in license fees. But I guess I R not too smart.
Really?
I met someone a few years ago who had replaced all the windows workstations at a small school district with diskless Linux workstations.
Between that and Googleapps they were saving $500 per workstation.
But hey I’m sure they didn’t have any customers.
No guys, wooly's right.
Burlington Coat Factory has been using Linux desktops for a decade now and they haven't had any customers. This piddly little start-up called Amazon.com is using Linux "in nearly every corner of its business" The result? No customers. Dreamworks Animation uses 1,000 Linux desktops (as of 2007) and used Linux for animation and visual effects in Shrek 3. I don't think anyone saw it, much less even knows who Dreamworks is... Google uses Linux on desktops in its corporate environments. I don't think they've made a nickel's profit...
There's a company headquartered at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway which has over a million computers, spread across a couple of dozen data centers around the world, all running Linux. They have lots of customers and one hell of a lot of users. Last year they netted about $8.5b.
Using Linux for business makes no sense at all, unless you do not plan on having customers.
Then there's the US Department of Defense:
The US Navy nuclear submarine fleet is using GNU/Linux
Linux headed into Boeing antisub aircraft
No customers there. Piddly lightweight stuff, this Linux. Just further proof of your point Wooly.
By embracing the opinion of an English major, writing for a tech publication, but who would rather be writing for a mainstream media operation, you will be viewed as someone no one will want to do business with.
Indeed. Isn't it funny when people write about subjects of which they know so little?