Wall Street Embraces Linux 505
Brian Stretch was among several
who sent in this story about Merrill Lynch
switching to Linux, this is interesting because it's actually companywide.
Talks about Red Hat, Linux threatening Unix and so on.
Mental image: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not safe enough for Air Traffic Control??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux not really "free"? (Score:3, Funny)
Damn those pesky business men and the concept of time equalling money. Damn them all.
Re:Linux not really "free"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Oh Man!!! (Score:4, Funny)
> Easy way to earn Karma:
> I'm going to submit a story every time some company installs Linux! Because, it's evidently front page material, and people must care a lot! I can just imagine some Linux zealot cracking open a bottle of champage-nya now that there's one more on the band wagon!
> Short version: Yeah, companies are installing Linux. Woo-fucking-hoo. Do we have to know about every one?
So... what precisely do you do at Microsoft?
Good news for Red Hat!! (Score:4, Funny)
Thousands of copies getting potentially used means revenues of, what, about $150 for that single copy?
Marge, CALL MY BROKER AND BUY RED HAT! BUY BUY BUY!!
Re:Linux not really "free"? (Score:5, Funny)
time = money
knowledge = power
work = power * time
work = knowledge * money
money = work / knowledge
QED: as knowledge --> 0, money --> infinity
Re:Linux not really "free"? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. :)
grnbrg
Re:Linux not really "free"? (Score:0, Funny)
girls = time * money
girls = money^2
money = root of all evil
girls = evil.
Year End Fiscals (Score:4, Funny)
Thankfully, you can do just that with our new project, "Year End Fiscals" for linux. Currently in Alpha, version 0.000121001, it'll allow you to simply type "fiscals -yearend" (at a minimum) and walk away while it generates your documents.
Try it out. Features 1,2,3,5,7-22 and 24-492 inclusive have yet to be implemented, but it will properly accept the first of our command line parameters (of which 132 are planned).
We don't have a completed plan, so if anybody can lend a hand, we'd appreciate it. We need coders, project managers, and economists.
At some point in the distant future, when things are working perfectly, we'll also need documentation specialists. Oh, wait - I've been informed that the coders can write the documentation as they go.
Oh yeah - no reliability, no support.
Note: tongue firmly in cheek!
Re:Mental image: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Year End Fiscals (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like a Microsoft release. Features 3, 28 and 103 will be implemented in the SE version, but the stability drops, 35 new security holes are introduced and if you've installed service packs 3 or 6, then it causes Outlook to fail when installed.
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Evan