@Pat McDonald 557291 wrote:
No Microsoft at work… you must have an unusually perceptive employer. 🙂
Or he works in a data centre processing a lot of large real time SQL databases/transactions.
Unfortunately although my employers are fully supportive of the use of FOSS and Linux, most non technical employees really struggle with anything other than a Windows desktop in English, and our three main operational systems are Windows based simply because our organisation is not able to devote much resources to custom coding (the IT department is actually combined with Facilities Management and Finance) – or I would have taught the two lads who work for me some basic skills and developed a custom database with a Linux SQL server). The Windows ones are a pain to keep going but I guess also help keep me in a job and I suspect that is why they are still popular (I still tend to refer to them as “NT servers” as they are no more reliable than they were in 1997).
That said Firefox is the standard browser rather than IE across all sites.
All phone systems at my work (plus the one in my roofspace) are Linux (Centos), a customised version of Asterisk and Freepbx (the Asterisk source code often needs some very dirty hacks to hard coded timers to get good caller ID from British Telecom Openreach circuits which operate in a different way to everywhere else in the world).
These usually work and stay working unless BT sends something particularly odd down the line (even then Asterisk restarts after it segfaults) or drop the broadband connection providing the site to site internal calls. If a patient database program plays up thats not such a disaster as paper based records are still kept, but PABX telephones must be as reliable as possible (provided the building has electricity) as they are needed to contact the Ambulance Service. (if there isn’t any electricity there are still some analogue ones available and power fail sockets that bypass the phone system)
