RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1528

> From: Joel Cochran
> 
> The beauty is that we had 5 people doing the same thing on that box,
an
> old ratty PIII 550 with 32mb of Ram.  If we wanted something installed
> we just did it once, like James is saying: maintenance is a snap.  We
> plan to have the entire DP staff doing this in the next few months.

I am NOT trying to start a flamewar here, so mount /dev/null for that
stuff <grin>.  What I do want to address, though, is the browser issue.
And I guess the Windows/Linux issue as well.  Together, this might even
be enough for a column, should I have time to write one.

Anyway, first off, why (for pure business reasons) switch to Linux
desktops?  Hardware costs?  Software costs?  What?  ("Bill Gates is the
Antichrist" is not an acceptable reason.)

Second, IE is still functionally different from Mozilla as far as the
DOM is concerned (for example, changing events).  Is it a sound business
idea to lock into a browser architecture that is different than some 94%
of the world?

Note: the differences between Mozilla and IE only show up in advanced
JSP techniques, but those are starting to creep into our applications.
Neat things like DHTML are becoming more prevalent, and without a robust
DOM implementation, there are things you can't do.  So does it make
business sense to move to Linux and basically remove those capabilities
from your users and your applications?

Joe