[Lvlug] Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

[WashkoD Washko]

Too bad it is not.  I work in Southern Lehigh.


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Daniel S. Washko
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>>> brian.martin@LVH.com 06/25/01 09:58AM >>>
Dann, which district do you work for?  If it's the one I'm in, I'll call
their office and send nasty grams.  

"Dann S. Washko" wrote:
> > 
> Obviously this person does not work in a school district.  I received some
> very distressing news yesterday.  The president of the school board really
> wants to get his fingers in the technology of the district.  He is pushing
> to oust Novell in favor of NT because HE "Feels" that Microsoft is the
> industry standard.  They already put the kabosh on the Linux Apache
> webserver, and now the higher-ups want to ditch novell for NT.  Really
> sucks.
> 
> I said to the boss, I cannot understand the logic behind spending and
> entire half of the year haggling with vendors, hours at a time, time taken
> away from doing productive work, to get the best possible price on
> computers; yet, I offer a rock solid solution to an existing problem that
> would not cost us a dime to implement, and it is turned down.  Oh, I
> should say, they would consider it more if it ran on Novell or Windows,
> but this would cost money and not be as efficient.
> 
> Really frustrating.  Resumes are going out on Monday.
> 
> --
> Daniel S. Washko
> Lehigh Valley Linux Users Group
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> get slack (www.slackware.com ) and get happy
> 
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