Subject: RE: cad in linux (was: NY Times..)
From: Andy Firman (aflist@gci.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 21:45:00 AKDT
Here is Linux again today (small quote from a big time CIO with 3,500 people
under him):
http://cin.earthweb.com/article/0,,10457_1456681_1,00.html
On the flip side, Linux is a new technology -- it's only over last couple of
years that companies have been more aggressive in using it for larger
commercial applications. There's a lot of hype around that, and we felt we
didn't want to be an early adopter of that, because we didn't see a real
direct impact on the business. Now as companies are starting to have some
success with Linux as another platform that might have some price
performance advantages, we decided it's time to roll up our sleeves and
start testing out what it takes to install Linux, get applications up and
running on the system and support it. We're installing Linux on a server and
will be moving a sample life application on to the operating system. This is
strictly a test at this point. That's one example of where we went a little
slower because we didn't see the direct business impact on customers.
Thanks,
Andy Firman
http://www.firmanconsulting.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> Justin Dieters
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:20 PM
> To: Jim Gribbin
> Cc: AKLUG
> Subject: cad in linux (was: NY Times..)
>
>
>
> It depends, at my office we use Land Development, Survey, and Civil
> Design which are extensions to the standard AutoCad, which I haven't
> seen any replacements for those on Linux. You also need to be able to
> download your survey data from your data collector or GPS, which I
> haven't seen anything for that on Linux either..
>
> I have toyed with the idea of proposing we use Linux as a file server,
> smoothwall box, or print server - but then when I leave, noone there
> would be able to maintain it without some serious training..
>
> Justin
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