Comments on: Lie #324 – Linux Costs more than Windows to Run. http://g33q.co.za/2009/01/15/lie-324-linux-costs-more-than-windows-to-run/ The New Look Tech Blog Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Quintin http://g33q.co.za/2009/01/15/lie-324-linux-costs-more-than-windows-to-run/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Quintin Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:40:16 +0000 http://blog.g33q.co.za/?p=97#comment-172 iCall should become a standard. And if it is not corrupted by MS like the recent opendocument standard it will make collaboration much easier. iCall should become a standard. And if it is not corrupted by MS like the recent opendocument standard it will make collaboration much easier.

]]> By: Jaco Kroon http://g33q.co.za/2009/01/15/lie-324-linux-costs-more-than-windows-to-run/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Jaco Kroon Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:05 +0000 http://blog.g33q.co.za/?p=97#comment-171 One word: Collaboration. You should know by now that a good, stable, calendaring solution has been plaguing me quite badly. In a fully FOSS-only environment this is somewhat do-able, but integrating with Outlook (even if your company does FOSS some nut is still sure to send you some MS-specific stuff) and the integration of iCall into the various mail clients is not that great yet. And that, is pretty much the only reason I can think of at the moment to run Windows over Linux. Heck, I ran Gentoo on >500 lab machines and if I compare the amount of time I put into that to the amount of time that the lab _admins_ (yes, plural) I shudder to think what it must be like. One word: Collaboration.

You should know by now that a good, stable, calendaring solution has been plaguing me quite badly. In a fully FOSS-only environment this is somewhat do-able, but integrating with Outlook (even if your company does FOSS some nut is still sure to send you some MS-specific stuff) and the integration of iCall into the various mail clients is not that great yet.

And that, is pretty much the only reason I can think of at the moment to run Windows over Linux. Heck, I ran Gentoo on >500 lab machines and if I compare the amount of time I put into that to the amount of time that the lab _admins_ (yes, plural) I shudder to think what it must be like.

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