Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone2.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!f1690d82!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC633BF.5040607@gte.net> From: Jason Stefanovich User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.hardware,comp.os.os2.beta,comp.lang.beta,comp.misc Subject: Re: Beta Testing References: <3CC567A8.6010805@gte.net> <3CC5DF8B.6AD979C8@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 42 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:19:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.200.167.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1019621987 67.200.167.46 (Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:19:47 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:19:47 EDT Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.edu:34388 comp.os.os2.beta:76459 comp.lang.beta:13217 comp.misc:82317 _zip wrote: > Jason Stefanovich wrote: > >>Anteater wrote: >> >> >>>I have done Beta Testing before for such companies as Microsoft, AOL, >>>etc. I do beta testing for a hobby. I would like to do more beta >>>testing. I do not charge anything, or even request anything in return. >>> >>>If anyone knows where I could register. I prefer Operating Systems, >>>and Hardware, but I am open to anything. >>> >>>Jkeagle13@aol.com >>> >>>THANKS! >>> >>> >>Nobody who's worth their salt at it does beta testing for fun. >> >>Even *properly* beta testing my own code is a pain in the butt. >> >>Jason S. >>Software Test Analyst >>US Army >> > > Cool job. I got suckered into enlisting as a 13F. I ets'd in '96 from > the 82nd. Whoa! :) > > So when you guys gona switch your desktops to linux? Some estimates are > that a switch from a M$ centric desktop environment to a freely > distributed open source operating system such as linux could save the > department anywhere from $800 - $1200 per year per computer. With over > half a million desktop pc's in the DOD the savings are considerable. > I've been running SCO as my main production environment since Oct '98. Don't think Win is ever going to go away on the desktop. More because of Outlook and Access than anything else.