News from PANUG/BizNix - December 12, 2002
http://panug.org - http://biznix.org


NO BIZNIX MEETING TONIGHT

The BizNix meeting is supposed to be tonight but many of us are
at the Itec show. We're going to combine the BizNix meeting with
the PANUG meeting next week.


FEEDBACK

Regarding the Windows/Linux TCO article a few days ago, 
Christian Bayer had this to say:

 I just wished to point out the slightly incomplete description of
 the evolution of Windows. While it's cetainly true that Windows 
 original roots were in DOS and that current versions evolved from
 previous versions, current versions of Windows' roots are a 
 combination of previous versions with a large helping of OS/2
 rather than DOS.  Oh, by the way, I think it's only been three
 days since I edited an autoexec.bat, config.sys and win.ini file.

Paul Rogers has this to say about the same article:

 In my experience as a Linux newbie, Linux has a very steep learning
 curve.  Somewhere up there it may plateau, but it's not at all easy
 to get there. Because of Windows place in the market, the changes
 from version to version you cite are more of an incemental nature
 and getting to this place is a sunk cost. This is a particular issue
 if one contemplates a wholesale change-over. Where will you get the
 trained personnel?


MISCELLANEOUS

Christian Bayer informs us that there's a free NetWare client
for Linux/Unix called Now-well available at:

http://now-well.sourceforge.net/linux/now-well/

Patrick Corrigan points out this article - Group urges limits on
open source:

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975578.html