[plug] Oxymoron: Microsoft, innovation

[Kai Jones]

I've discussed with my boss and we're not moving to Vista, we've not
long got most of the bugs and glitches between XP and
Ferret/MedicalDirector sorted out, Vista is going to cause too many
headaches and the other Aboriginal Medical Services in the Kimberley run
software which is managed by us, so they're staying with what they've
got.

Unless MS improve their attitude towards anyone who's not in bed with
them, I'll never embrace their software, sure, I'll understand how to
use it, doesn't mean I'll like it.

So far I've managed to get a Linux proxy installed so that's a foot in
the door, not sure what I can suggest to implement next to show the boss
what open source can do, and do it better than closed source, and on
older hardware, but hey I'm sure something will come up....

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I was there.

The reality is that for the enterprise level, Vista and Office 2007 are
not going to be budged, so you may as well embrace. The "powers that be"
are the ones who make the decisions, and I don't see any major changes
occuring in the next 5 years or so..

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Kai Jones wrote: 

	We all know it, but here's a nice article for any of your
friends who
	have been seduced by the dark side, it's short enough to keep
their
	interest raher than being a novel that they'll see and go "can't
be
	bothered"
	http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9006356588.html
	
	...and before you say it, yes I am writing this using MS Outlook
via
	Exchange server, I'd love to use open source in every area
practical
	here but some people's minds take a long time to change.
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