[issues] Re: [techtalk] Desktop OS?

[Kristin M. Fitzsimmons]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:49:05 -0700 <cthulhu at blarg.net> wrote: 

> How many tech support departments are going to switch 
> their company over to a system that requires all the 
> work of installing, and then walking all the users 
> through how to use the new system a million times? It's 
> an uphill battle to get users to switch, because they're 
> comfortable with what they've got and on the whole, it 
> works for them. I have never, in 12 years of working in 
> corporate environments, worked anywhere that didn't use 
> Windows and/or Office. That may have more to do with 
> where I live (Seattle area) than anything else, so I'd 
> like to hear if that experience is not usual.
> 

My office (which, admittedly, consists of myself and my boss
and is a subset of a larger office) runs Debian. But my
boyfriend's company, which is a good deal larger, not only
runs Linux (RH, I think) in the office, but, afaik, also
uses it in most or all of their stores.