From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 7 Jul 1993 01:46:57 -0700
rgallen@muug.mb.ca (Rennie Allen) writes:
>Deployment, of a major mission critical system for our company, I can call
>somebody up and have that bug fixed in 24 hours ? Who do I call ?
Companies like Cygnus. There are now a dozen (?) companies
supporting Linux.
>A user supported "free" OS like Linux will *never* be used by any large
>corporations for any of their mission critical systems; and face it, where
Large corps use emacs and gcc for mission critical stuff (e.g. using
gcc to develop code which goes into PROMs). Companies like Cygnus
give them levels of uptime and on-call response which are adequate.
-ans
-- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu