Martin Hotze wrote:

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:19:17 GMT, G.R. Patterson III wrote:

It would be nice to see a system such as
Linux be able to handle the needs of all levels of corporations.

I'd say that many (esp. small) companies might have the need for a win OS.

My former employer topped out at over 8,000 employees in 2001. Hardly small.
Company policy was that every employee had a Windows desktop services login.
Coders would also have Unix and/or MVS logins. These would be accessed by using
something like telnet on the Windows box. As of 2002, all this was on NT with
no plans to change.

I can't understand companies with the above structure and
situation still buying a MS office suite, needing to register with MS,
never versions bringing DRM, closed source, etc.

The company also had a policy against using any sort of freeware. I don't know
why, but they felt they had excellent legal reasons to do so. Many other programs
(such as Word) were used because customers insisted on it.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.