On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:38:47 +0200, Hadron Quark wrote:
> Ray Ingles <sorceror@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 2006-09-12, billwg <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Odd that you ignored the part (that was actually quoted in the post
>>>> you're replying to) about how it already had 400 linux boxes deployed.
>>>> Apparently once they'd tried it, they liked it so much they went whole
>>>> hog.
>>>>
>>> Well, I didn't read it all that carefully, ray. After review, it looks
>>> like he is not replacing anything other than "IBM POS terminals" with
>>> linux.
>>
>> Now you're *really* not reading carefully. They *put in* "IBM POS
>> terminals" to "replace Windows with Linux on both desktop and server".
>> I agree that POS terminals are pretty restricted 'desktops', but that's
>> the term used in the article.
>>
>>> IIRC, those things were all OS/2 to begin with
>>
>> I don't know if "R" is supposed to mean "recall" or "read", but either
>> way you're wrong. Quoting the customer themselves: "Cost is a big factor
>> if you're looking at 400 Windows computers..."
>>
>>> there are very few such installations using Windows
>>> AFAICT.
>>
>> 490 less now, actually.
>>
>>> You can assume they exist and are not publicized all you want, ray, but
>>> you are just guessing and going against the conventional wisdom at
>>> that.
>>
>> No, I'm going against *your* assertions, not 'conventional wisdom'.
>> Unless you'd care to present evidence to back up your claims?
>>
>>> We buy some 10,000 PCs annually throughout the corp and they are almost
>>> all Windows PCs with a couple of Macs and now and then a linux machine
>>> per hundred or so machines. That never makes any news at all.
>>
>> Change is noticeable. The status quo isn't. Lots of notice about Linux
>> changes lately. Whether you enjoy them or not, Roy sure finds a lot of
>> good Linux news to post...
>
> If you find it interesting and heart warming to read that Shylock, the
> Jewish pharmacist, has moved to Linux on 3 of his 8 PCs to "save money".
>
> Frankly I find his News to be rarely interesting : about in 1 a 100 to
> be precise, slightly more to be unbiased .... of those actually replied
> to by anyone but Kier and Mark'n'Roy, the Son of Rex's downtrodden
> secretary and shill.
You really a prick, aren't you. You and flatfish the arsehole make a great
pair.
And if you actually paid attention, you would see that I rarely reply to
News posts.
--
Kier
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