From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk On Behalf Of Ben Norcutt Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:38 PM
As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in
Norwich
I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze.
<SOAPBOX> I've been working in the IT industry as both in development and support roles since 1975. I've a fair bit of experience both using and supporting all sorts of systems including Unix and Windows based systems. In my experience, in terms of complexity and effort required, there is absolutely no difference between them. In the main the problems and issues stay the same in both. Most of the issues are those of user management and the logistics of deployment.
The main difference for any organisation, public or private sector, between them is that the acquisition costs of GNU/Linux based systems is a lot lot less. </SOAPBOX>
Regards, Keith ____________ Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen Saying