Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 11:48:27 -0500 (CDT) | From | Brian <> | Subject | Re: Presenting Linux to the Corporate World |
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On Sun, 23 May 1999, D. Clyde Williamson wrote:
> I work for a large corporation (by large, I mean +1000 employees for > just the IS dept), and have finally gotten my "30-minutes" in front of > their standards committe to present Linux. This is a Good Thing. > > What I'm looking for is a pointer to resources that I can pull from to > create my presentation. I've got "The Cathedral and the Bazzar" as well > as "Managers Guide To Linux" What I'm looking for now is a sort of rough > roadplan for the 2.4.x kernel etc. Any thoughts on how long before we > see ACL's, journaling filesystems, Heavy Duty SMP support... remember > this is for the PHB's.... I'm currently running in our testbed a > Dual-Processor PII system as File/Print/Intranet for our R&D group > (2.2.8 kernel) it works fine.
2.2.8 kernel? I don't think it is going to be "fine" for long, if that kernel isn't patched. 2.2.8 had some problems that could lead to corruption of your filesystem.
> > Also if any of you have participated in large scale migrations, NT to > Linux for File/Print and possibly desktop could you give me any ideas on > where to pull some numbers for my presentation. > > I'm not looking for alot of responses... just thoughts from anyone who > has any. > > Thanks, > D. Clyde > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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