Re: [Sheflug] Fw: failure notice

["Robert Speed" <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

> I'm interested in where everyone thinks the UK Linux market is at the
> moment: Is it in server software? Do bosses take Linux seriously - do
> they trust it to run their business? Is it in home use? Is it still
> mostly in LUGs and university computer centres?

We've moved some of our critical apps from IBM RS/6000s to
Athlon based Linux boxes.
To the users, nothings changed, it's still a terminal session to
them, on the backend, we had a whole load of shell scripts to
re-write (just tweaks, and a move to lpr from lpq (under AIX)).
The COBOL stuff pretty much stayed the same, just re-compile
everything, sort out the bugs and that was it.
The whole project lasted just over 6 months, and we went live in 
January of this year.

Mind you, it helps that (almost) all of I.T. here are into Linux,
but we also get a decent leash from the directors.



Robert Speed, Systems Analyst/Programmer.
Vickers Laboratories Ltd
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