RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies

["R. Armstrong" <rarmstrong -at- alpha -dot- ipswitch -dot- com>]

I don't know...for me, it sounds like the whole 'Printed periodicals will
soon be done away with' debate I heard 10 years ago.  OpenSource software
will never be as widely used as commercial software, because OpenSource
requires a higher level of knowledge than something right out of the box.
If that wasn't true, then we wouldn't have things such as HTML editors and
Web Templates.  Everyone would write HTML in notepad and be happy with it.

While I do use some OS 'stuff' I wouldn't feel comfortable using it where my
job depended on it. Too many hands in the pot, and no one to blame if the
food tastes bad.

Take this with a grain of salt, since some of our competitors are OS
solutions.

Robert Armstrong
Ipswitch, Inc. 




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