From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:03:12 EST."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:21:27 -0500
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a@9srv.net writes:
> // In fact, they're on the campaign trail again to move the whole
> // company onto an environment that's cheaper for them to support.
>
> and what does that have to do with windows? unless they're moving
> people *off* of it? windows generally looses the TCO war, unless
> you're willing to undersupport your users and have things in a
> perpetually broken state. in which case it can win, because
> moderatly-bad windows admins are cheaper than moderatly-bad unix
> admins.

Windows is the sticky tar that killed the dinosaurs.  Once you stick a
finger in, you're not going to get out.  And the finger that everyone
got stuck with was Microsoft Word.  I can't count the number of times
someone tells me, `I'll send you a text file!' and I get a Word
document.  It's stupid, but it's reality.

	- Dan C.