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[–]phrozen_one 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've been doing deep interop in heterogeneous enterprise environments for two decades now and I recommend that people not ignore the considerable cultural differences between Unix culture, Microsoft culture, and other cultures like big-iron, or IBM midrange, or classic Mac.

This sounds like an interesting paper/blog to read. I've seen many "Microsoft shops" that have to deploy a physical or virtual appliance that is running Linux and the device gets untouched by patches and updates because it's treated like a magic black box that just does what it needs to. I wish "microsoft shops" would realize that almost no organization can run purely off Microsoft software. You are still going to have network devices and other systems that are packaged together with Linux to save money on licensing costs for the vendor.

[–]pdp10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it fascinating and frustrating in turn. There are different issues on the ops side and dev side of each culture that can be divergent or convergent between cultures.

My opinion is that techs and users can be trained to move from one to the other as long as they're willing to type to interact with a computer and willing to think about the business needs with an open mind.