10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
12:27 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:22 -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Wednesday 10 June 2009, William Donzelli wrote:
Having seen inside CSX Railroad's control room in Indianapolis, I can
tell you that there's a lot of PCs running the(ir) railroad, even if
they're not running Windows. They're also not the only business I've
removed classic gear from that has quite successfully switched to a
commodity hardware platform.
As a railroading fan, I've got to know: what do they use?
The
other amusing thing about which people here (at least) should
know better is the visibility factor. VMS, OS/400, MVS, and VM are
*everywhere*...but people think they're somehow "dead" because the
only thing they see in for sale in WalMart is PCs running Windows.
Do these people really believe PCs running Windows process their
bank transactions, maintain hospital databases, or run railroads?
Let's also give credit where credit is due - there are huge numbers
of *nix guys that are as bad as the Windows guys. The penguin crowd
are the worst offenders. Pat