Dying company ? Yup !

Dying company ? Yup !

Posted May 29, 2007 16:43 UTC (Tue) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983)
In reply to: Dying company ? Yup ! by i3839
Parent article: What Microsoft and Novell agreed to

RE: " ... too many small companies too deep into MS software and data lock-in to get out of it easily."

While I do not know about small companies, I know something about the situation that existed at a few very large companies. One was a quite large pharmaceutical company, where I had a short assignment, that used a consultant doing nothing other than customizing Office applications for a wide set of users. Next I saw a power user at an insurance company customizing his own applications. And finally, at a very large financial firm where I spent personal capital pushing alternatives, I was informed that such customizations permanently precluded ever breaking away from MS applications.

Don't despair, for some, particularly developers, the Linux Desktop option appeared to have a chance, whether it succeeded I do not know*. This same person that said this also told me Linux had no chance at this company, since its history was in Sun's Unix and Windows. Nonetheless, Linux on the server was almost a monopoly by the time of my exit, though there were still many Windows servers still in use. This was a LARGE firm.

* [I have this propensity to shot my mouth off at inconvenient moments. That resulted in my being shown the exit. This result stemmed from my naive belief that I should deliver what I had promised. I compounded the error by explaining how ignorant the decision makers were. Might have survived had I not copied the user on this set of hot emails.]

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