[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ajai Khattri]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, [utf-8] Zach Stern wrote:

> So therefore, if you were in IT (you may be, I have no idea),

Sure, I was in IT, probably long before you (hell, I was probably 
programming before your parents even met :-)

Im now more in development and much happier as a result.

> you would 
> insist all clients ran 100 percent linux/mac shops? You wouldn't have 
> too many clients.

Actually no. But you know, that day is not too far away. Several (large) 
companies and organizations have done this. I would qualify that by 
saying, of course if you have an application that is necessary and only 
runs in Windows, you dont have much choice, but its useful to check out 
what options are available and not just assume its hopeless to even think 
it.

Im lucky, the company I work for is in publishing so we're 90% Mac.

But a lot of corporate users just need a web browser and an office suite, 
both of which are well catered for by non-Windows alternatives. I would 
further argue that the greatest impediment to this idea is corporate IT 
itself.

I also believe that as more people are exposed to alternatives from home 
or college, that alternative IT setups will become more common. We're 
already seeing it happen.



-- 
Aj.