Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> 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.
> 
It's also lost corporate data.


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