Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 10 01:18:42 UTC 2005


On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:18:48PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> It's amazing how much garbage some people are willing to put up with.  I
> recently started supporting Windows users, at a large company where they
> use Outlook.  Until now, I had never *EVER* heard of people routinely
> losing large amounts of email.  Outlook uses one large PST file for each
> personal folder.  When these folders get much beyond 750 MB they tend to
> corrupt, with little hope of recovery.  The "Inbox Repair Tool" rarely
> works, so if there's no backup, the messages are gone.  Outlook also
> tends to "forget" where the PST files are.  When that happens, the user
> has to recreate the personal folders in Outlook, by reconnecting to the
> PST files.  These people have come to accept this as normal!!!???!!!
> Why can't some people realize what a garbage product Outlook is and go
> to some other app?  Just about everything else is far more reliable.  In
> all the (almost 30) years I've been using and supporting computers, I've
> never heard of mail disappearing due to anything other than finger error
> or hardware failure, until now.

Simple.
    - It's not their money.
    - Sysadmin has somthing to do.
    - Users have something to do.

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