Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 23:53:25 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <199907040453.XAA29384@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org> of "Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:30:26 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907031110550.35392-100000@freedom.cybertouch.org>
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Lanny Baron writes: > If they are already comfortable with MS OFFICE or whatever MAC uses ( I > know nothing of MAC's) then why the need for the "pain". Face it, most > people who work for organizations like banks or law firms etc; will use > windows based programs for their day to day work. I can't find the reference, but recently saw some statistics claiming DOS was still the leader in law offices. MacOS was a close 2nd. Altho NT was gaining ground. This past week I purchased a demo 21" monitor from MaxVision, a high end PC-based value added CAD shop. The nice lady who took my money bantered the president of MaxVision for selling me this 21" monitor when she only had a 15" on her desk. OTOH the application she was running to print my invoice was in 80x25 text mode. Likely DOS, maybe SCO. Little good a 21" monitor would do her. I almost fell out of my chair laughing the first time I saw the BIOS messages and FreeBSD's kernel init messages in 80x25 mode on a 21" monitor. My point is a commercial environment is often a production shop. The computer on desktops has a specific purpose, usually not including web surfing or word processing. The application is tailored to that environment. "Windows skills" have little to do with the ability to get the job done. I doubt I would have been able to coax an invoice out of the above application without quite a number of iterations of trial and error. In an engineering shop there will also be a core application or suite of applications. The OS matters less than the application. For the past 10 years I have used a Macintosh for schematic and PCB design. The applications I have been using have been getting long in the tooth and its time to consider replacing them. It appears the only productive choices I have are NT based. Those running on HP or Sun workstations are beyond my price range. I'd sure like to find something I could run under FreeBSD as I'm not a "production" computer user, I use my computers as general purpose multi-tools. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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