All Mandating IE -There is a solution (read here)!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 12, 2003 10:54 PM
What Insurance companies was asked by someone? Ans- ALL OF THEM ! TAKE YOUR PICK! I do not know of one that is not Mandating IE ! I do not know of one that is thinking of Linux! Why, Well, because the insurance agencies also run 3rd party "all-in-one accounting with customer database applications" (and rating programs) that are all written for only Windows! Some of these use IE too (for online help and other functions)! AND with the big companies using IE and the 3rd party application developers using IE and Windows too... then, which one switches to Linux first, whereupon the other is left incompatible at that point and the business can not run! There is a way to migrate... however it is thru Open Source apps for Windows first and then to Linux (as they need to use open source apps for Windows at 100% (to get away from IE and other MS tools) BEFORE any migration to the same or equal Linux application is possible. Apps RULE !
The 3rd party application developers don't like Microsoft because every change that Microsoft forces at them means that their programming costs go up (passed on to customer). Fewer changes for them mean higher profits and that is why many do like Linux and the control that Linux would give them to make changes on their own time tables and not Microsoft's !
Note that this is also true of the Farm Equipment retail businesses as they are also running 3rd party Windows based accounting with inventory and customer databases that interface with Windows based parts and pricing software packages from their Equipment and parts manufacturing companies. They also use IE for certain tasks. So - one is entwined with the other... If the manufacturing companies ran their own retail shops then migration could be easy! This is not the case as their retail part is often made up of independent dealers that often can represent more than one manufacturing company! The parts apps need to run on the computers that the retail vendors are using!
So timming a Linux migration where all the software apps become Linux overnite in these cases would have to be coordinated at all levels (in some cases the distributors would have to be migrated as well - meaning 3 levels on the parts supply chain migrating at the same time)!
If someone set up Linux booths at the specific industry trade shows for these industries (and others) then, the Linux education could start to get the seeds of change started in the minds of these folks toward OPEN SOURCE windows first, then toward Linux apps second. Note that Linux education will be easy because there is not one business that I know of that likes being pushed around by Microsoft (they hate Microsoft as much as everyone else does)!
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All Mandating IE -There is a solution (read here)!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 12, 2003 10:54 PMAns- ALL OF THEM ! TAKE YOUR PICK!
I do not know of one that is not Mandating IE !
I do not know of one that is thinking of Linux!
Why,
Well, because the insurance agencies also run 3rd party "all-in-one accounting with customer database applications" (and rating programs) that are all written for only Windows! Some of these use IE too (for online help and other functions)!
AND with the big companies using IE and the 3rd party application developers using IE and Windows too... then, which one switches to Linux first, whereupon the other is left incompatible at that point and the business can not run! There is a way to migrate... however it is thru Open Source apps for Windows first and then to Linux (as they need to use open source apps for Windows at 100% (to get away from IE and other MS tools) BEFORE any migration to the same or equal Linux application is possible. Apps RULE !
The 3rd party application developers don't like Microsoft because every change that Microsoft forces at them means that their programming costs go up (passed on to customer). Fewer changes for them mean higher profits and that is why many do like Linux and the control that Linux would give them to make changes on their own time tables and not Microsoft's !
Note that this is also true of the Farm Equipment retail businesses as they are also running 3rd party Windows based accounting with inventory and customer databases that interface with Windows based parts and pricing software packages from their Equipment and parts manufacturing companies.
They also use IE for certain tasks. So - one is entwined with the other... If the manufacturing companies ran their own retail shops then migration could be easy! This is not the case as their retail part is often made up of independent dealers that often can represent more than one manufacturing company! The parts apps need to run on the computers that the retail vendors are using!
So timming a Linux migration where all the software apps become Linux overnite in these cases would have to be coordinated at all levels (in some cases the distributors would have to be migrated as well - meaning 3 levels on the parts supply chain migrating at the same time)!
If someone set up Linux booths at the specific industry trade shows for these industries (and others) then, the Linux education could start to get the seeds of change started in the minds of these folks toward OPEN SOURCE windows first, then toward Linux apps second. Note that Linux education will be easy because there is not one business that I know of that likes being pushed around by Microsoft (they hate Microsoft as much as everyone else does)!
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