On 21/02/14 02:04, Dev Kumkar wrote:
I am aware of the
heavy presence of Microsoft in the market place and the huge
inertia
of Microsoft dominated companies (even where management would like
to
change), hence I was not trying to push upgrading to Linux too
strongly for this particular situation - more light hearted
exasperation!
None-the-less there are more and more companies
making that move - as there are a whole raft of very good reasons
to
do so.
If the sole reason for going to Linux was the collation
problem, then it would probably be considered by most people to be
a
silly reason.
Cheers,
Gavin
P.S. Once
a Senior Systems Analyst left the company I was working for to
become
the DP manager of an IT department. I spoke to him shortly
after and he said it was an 'IBM shop' - about ten years later he
was
at the same place, but he now said it was a 'Microsoft shop'.
The dominant technology that appears set in stone, does eventually
change despite the market inertia – my first commercial languages
were FORTRAN & COBOL on minicomputers & IBM style
mainframes,
now I use Java on Linux.