On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:00:45AM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:19:15PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > >I would really love to start supporting Linux on the corporate desktop. One > >way or another we need to deal with the end user; better to do it on > >something closer to our terms. :) > > You're a better man than I am. People don't _want_ to learn a new OS and > apps unless they are geeks like we are. There will be one question in thier > mind "Why can't I just use M$ Word?" because 99% of the corporate planet > knows how to use that. > > I say et M$ have the desktop. And let's concentrate our energies on the > server end. Specifically in middleware, and cross-platform file serving. > There's good money in this area without all the HUGE overhead of supporting > massive amounts of individual machines and non-technical users who can't > understand why they need to "mount" a floppy or cdrom and don't want to > understand it either. And I bet nobody here _REALLY_ wants to do tech support for regular users. Having worked for 3 months in Windows tech a few years ago I know that it would be hopeless. How are you going to tell them what to do when they have trouble setting up a dial-up connection in win95? -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>