[LINK] McAfee update problem

[Craig Sanders]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:59:21PM +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:44 PM 24/04/2010, Craig Sanders wrote:
> >sooner or later, even the clueless senior management and the mid-level
> >CMA wannabes who swallow up that kind of garbage will realise that it's
> >just advertorial, that Windows and MS Office and proprietary software in
> >general inherently costs far more - in the short term AND the long term
> >- than free software.
> 
> Maybe they already have:
> 
> Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open source 
> software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so 
> within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner.
> 
> http://www.zdnetasia.com/gartner-85-percent-of-firms-use-open-source-62048339.htm

yeah, but most of them are using FOSS on the servers and STILL using MS
Windows on the desktops. and they're doing it because they think it's
too hard to get people to use a different desktop OS and apps, and they
think that mostly due to their own ignorance and fear of change but
partly because trendmongers and propagandists like Gartner tell them so.


and part of the reason why they're even using it on servers is because
it was installed by stealth by IT staff who just wanted their servers to
work. often management only became aware of it years after it was set up
(partly because of the First Rule of Systems Administration - your work
only ever gets noticed when something goes wrong)

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>