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On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:57, Rob Beard wrote: > Well when I was working at the scientific research lab about 5 > years ago > they were slowly moving over to Linux (RedHat 9 at the time) as it was > cheaper to buy a reasonable spec desktop machine and dual boot with > Windows XP or single boot RedHat than spend out for a Sun workstation. > They had all sorts of different kit in the place ranging from Windows > PCs to Macs to Sun workstations to Alphas. > > From what I understand they did have some old kit which would only > work > with Sun workstations but I think gradually things were either moving > over to Linux, Java or Windows. > > Rob I rather get the impression that's the general way of things. Lots of research places,including universities, ran Unix but now use Linux or the W word.(I'm too much of a lady to even write it). Clare , -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html