Comments on: Rocky Mountain high for open source

The man behind Steamboat Springs' move to open source sees big gains for local governments.

[Jim Hubbard]

A question I didn't see.....

There is a question I didn;t see asked that may have made the article *appear* more unbiased. It is "Aside from what you've talked about just now, what are the main DISadvantages of running open source?"

Ahhhh.....but that would not skew article towards Linux, now would it?

[orfeu_niko]

No need to quetion that

The guy spoke about the disavanteges. With all the quiestions, I think he was pretty onest and never, ever said that he was absolitly pleased or that there were no drawback, or no additional costs etc.

The fact that there was question about disavanteges doesn't mean that that this articol was just about how great open source is. In fact there was no need too put it. They found what they need, some future were not that polished, but they could live with it. Some times I got the impression that they just wanted to cut costs so they used what could find cheeper and live with it.
Windows has it's uses too, and as far as read they have no plans to move to linux in desktop too or e-mail server. They actualy move to windows XP, which is typical for any conservative organization.

Have a good day.
And remember, anything is better than a Mac, even on Apple hardware (sorry, could not help myself).

[rstinnett]

I'm Sorry...

... as much as I believe in Linux and such, forcing people to use something isn't the solution. Linux is NOT ready for the desktop market, plain and simple. It is a great product, but to give it your average office worker as a daily OS? No way!

I had my own nightmare the other day with Ubuntu Linux as I documented in my blog (http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-EpqlBJ0hfqL8e1zQBGovQdV5TQ--?cq=1) that really frustrated me to no end. So I don't see this big switch is really going to benefit anyone.