RE: The future of computing

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,


What is your point? That some consultants are incompetent? That some may be
unethical? Personally, I think you're being shortsighted, and drawing
simplistic conclusions. But none of that has anything to do with why I
jumped into the thread, and I have no interest in discussing it.

You claim that the thread is not becoming OS-X vs OS-Y, yet that is the very
foundation of your unethical-consultant argument. Indeed, most of your
message consists of exactly such comparisons.

If the thread manages to rise back above the "NT/Linux/AnyOS SUCKS"
diatribe, then perhaps I'll find something interesting to participate in.


-john




>     The discussion was not "OS-X vs OS-Y." What I thought we were
> discussing
> was the willingness of people to install a solution that is not
> best for the
> customer simply because that is the solution they are familiar
> with and thus
> have income potential from that.
>     When I noted that NT was not as robust as OS/400, I was an
> AS/400 bigot.
> When I noticed that NT didn't measure up to OS/2, I was an OS/2
> bigot. When
> I pointed out that Unix variants seemed to provide more stable and secure
> web service than NT, I was a Linux bigot.
>     Certainly is must be difficult to justify years of installing
> a platform
> that had no other justification for being in the marketplace than
> the market
> influence of the producer. But on the plus side, the next version might
> deliver on the last 9 years of promises.
>     Yeah, I know that all sounds so harsh and attacking, but I am
> just being
> honest. I've used NT and I really think as a consumer operating
> system it is
> in the top 3. I don't really want to run it down because there isn't any
> point.
>     But the mistakes of yesteryear are all behind us. As NT becomes more
> viable I think we all should consider it when and where it is viable.
>     Besides, rumor has it the geniuses at Redmond will soon have a 64-bit
> version!
>
> Chris Rehm
> javadisciple@earthlink.net
> If you believe that the best technology wins the
> marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.
>
>

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