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SubjectRe: Presenting Linux to the Corporate World
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
>
>
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