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TamaraB
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Call me an old fart, but I prefer to make people's lives easier by supplying them with the tools that will help them perform to the best of their abilities. Not supplying them with software where they will spend months behind the eight ball trying to learn it or where my IT folks will spend time trying to teach them.
Just my .02 cents. 
Agree.... Guess I just run with a different crowd. My office is 2 blocks from NYU, and I find hiring 3rd year CS students (major in programming) Ideal for my needs. We run just over 200 Internet domains, with about 10,000 users exclusively on Solaris, BSD, and Linux servers co-located around the country; all this with my partner and I, 2 field techs, one secretary/bookkeeper and half dozen NYU CS students working from their dorms; everyone except the secretary are telecommuting.
Just about every 3rd year NYU CS student can jump right in and do a task on our network with relative low risk and quite impressive results. They all know UNIX, and can get around a command-line driven OS easily; which is needed since none of our servers runs any form of GUI.
So, in my case, I am providing them with the tools they are already familiar with... VI, FTP, SSH, (the only "software" needed to administer a nix system) and a knowledge of C/Unix.
To believe that every computer nerd is windows-centric is a mistake (a very expensive mistake). The best are actually C-Code Hackers and very Nix-Centric (like my NYU students); but like I said, we obviously run in very different circles This has worked for me for decades, since our days on the arpanet, and still works well.
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said by TamaraB :
said by BosstonesOwn :
Linux is not the end all solution. And forcing people to use something they are not familiar with is even more of a problem waiting to happen.
I disagree! If an employee can't break-out of what they are familiar with, and learn something new, I don't want them as employees! I don't hire people who know everything, I hire people who can learn. The ability to learn is the definition of intelligence; and I do not hire people of low intelligence.
I may be an old-fart, but I have learned a thing or two in the past 50 years!
Bob
I think the thing that should be stressed is that Linux is not an end all solution. Also, since I don't do the hiring for the other departments, everyone who comes in knows Windows. IT is like customer service. To throw them Linux and say, "Learn Something" doesn't get you many brownie points. Maybe you can do that, but I can't. Which is why we have a few Linux systems and mostly Windows systems.
Call me an old fart, but I prefer to make people's lives easier by supplying them with the tools that will help them perform to the best of their abilities. Not supplying them with software where they will spend months behind the eight ball trying to learn it or where my IT folks will spend time trying to teach them.
Just my .02 cents.
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