Windows "Nightmare" Spurs Open-Source Adoption

Anti-Trend · 26-10-2005, 12:05 AM

Mark Uemura, IT manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan, was hired into a veritable IT crucible of unstable servers, proprietary services, and an extremely tight budget.

"PricewaterhouseCoopers is a Windows shop but we were forced to use open source," he said. "I inherited a real nightmare with servers going up and down. There were e-mail outages and on top of that there was a bad relationship between our users and IT." ... Faced with an unreliable network, Uemura went ahead and migrated systems from Windows to OpenBSD on the premise that management would trust his judgement.

Read the rest of this brief article at Computerworld.com.

Addis · 26-10-2005, 10:24 AM

Yes, another one bites the dust.

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Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek Join Date: Oct 2003 Age: 27 Male Posts: 4,879 Times Helpful: 535 Status: Offline My Computer	Windows "Nightmare" Spurs Open-Source Adoption Mark Uemura, IT manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan, was hired into a veritable IT crucible of unstable servers, proprietary services, and an extremely tight budget. "PricewaterhouseCoopers is a Windows shop but we were forced to use open source," he said. "I inherited a real nightmare with servers going up and down. There were e-mail outages and on top of that there was a bad relationship between our users and IT." ... Faced with an unreliable network, Uemura went ahead and migrated systems from Windows to OpenBSD on the premise that management would trust his judgement. Read the rest of this brief article at Computerworld.com. Attached Images __________________ See My Desktop \| Try Linux \| Install Linux \| Visit My Server \| Support Hardware Forums \| Easily rip DVDs in Linux \| Remember Everything

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