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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 10 Dec 2024 19:52:34 GMT
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:07:36 +0100, D wrote:

> Ahh... I lost a business deal with the government yesterday, and this
> old trick was specifically the reason. The IT-department was very
> pro-windows,
> and with my solution, they had to manage linux and the hardware, but not
> the solution on top. With the competitor, they promised them that they'd
> take care of everything and that they would never have to see a
> terminal, and there was much rejoicing among the windows people.

We had two sites that used Linux on the servers although the workstations 
were Windows. In both cases the administrator was a Linux fan. When they 
left or moved up the ladder the servers were moved to Windows.