From: "Toby Corkindale" <toby@dryft.net>
On 30/09/13 17:51, Peter Nunn wrote:
From his perspective, it?s about redundancy. He can throw out one lot of IT people, replace them with another lot, and they will still be able to support the system.
He can?t find a Linux shop just by walking up the street or finding the first IT company in the Yellow Pages.
Also worth noting that with Linux, you tend to get a huge variance in the way things are set up, depending on the sysadmins who created it. If you bring in a new Linux shop, they may well take quite a while to figure out how everything works, and then want to change it.
I do not think that is true. Of course, you have few flavours but it boils down (for most) to Red Hat vs. Debian based distributions. It is probably even more consistent over years - compared to the move from Windows XP to Vista to Windows 7 to Windows 8. Installs, setups and upgrades will be look very similar whoever it is doing it, as long they do not try to be deliberately "exotic". Customisation will need some understanding - but the same challenge will be there for every Windows admin too. I moved between jobs and never found that too hard to understand setups done by others. The bigger challenge was dealing with "messy setups" (means no policies at all - so I do it differently on every second machine). (Maybe that just offends the German in me;-) Well, that happens under Windows as well, and it is actually needs more effort to have computers that look the same. Regards Peter