As homage to the other similarly titled thread, I think this is the third time I've ranted on this.
Why do big companies trust their critical computing needs to the Windows operating system? Some of you know that I own some fast food restaurants. Our online POS system is Windows based and we have far, far too many issues with it that are beyond ridiculous and, if such a thing were present in FreeBSD, I would not be here today.
We have issues on a monthly basis. Last week, we started getting errors popping up on our screen related to .NET programming. Why we, the user, are seeing these popup errors is anyone's guess. Then it was decided we needed new hard drives. Doing so, including building our POS system back up, took five hours. Why?
Of course, we can't get the drawer open, the automatic change dispenser now doesn't work, today's sales weren't transferred, and we can't enter inventory. Second tier support can't fix it so it's bumped up to senior level which hasn't called us back an hour later and, in the meantime, we can't take credit cards and have to hand calculate any sales that come in. Why?
This is the same hardware we've had for over a year. The same OS, Windows 7. Everything is the same but they can never have a smooth transition (we've been through this before).
We are now entering our eight hour of trying to get this to work.
I have never, ever had issues, ever, with any Unix, FreeBSD or Linux systems since I first started with it in 1992 but, with Windows, problems are the only constant. And I haven't even started on about my wife's laptop.
Thank you very much.
Why do big companies trust their critical computing needs to the Windows operating system? Some of you know that I own some fast food restaurants. Our online POS system is Windows based and we have far, far too many issues with it that are beyond ridiculous and, if such a thing were present in FreeBSD, I would not be here today.
We have issues on a monthly basis. Last week, we started getting errors popping up on our screen related to .NET programming. Why we, the user, are seeing these popup errors is anyone's guess. Then it was decided we needed new hard drives. Doing so, including building our POS system back up, took five hours. Why?
Of course, we can't get the drawer open, the automatic change dispenser now doesn't work, today's sales weren't transferred, and we can't enter inventory. Second tier support can't fix it so it's bumped up to senior level which hasn't called us back an hour later and, in the meantime, we can't take credit cards and have to hand calculate any sales that come in. Why?
This is the same hardware we've had for over a year. The same OS, Windows 7. Everything is the same but they can never have a smooth transition (we've been through this before).
We are now entering our eight hour of trying to get this to work.
I have never, ever had issues, ever, with any Unix, FreeBSD or Linux systems since I first started with it in 1992 but, with Windows, problems are the only constant. And I haven't even started on about my wife's laptop.
Thank you very much.