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1. Quad 🌸 (quad@weeaboo.space)'s status on Friday, 25-May-2018 05:00:02 EDT Quad 🌸
   @rice @sim There's one network admin I know who can hold his own.
   
   But IT education is trash in Norway, so all my other colleagues and all the other external consultants can only do Windows Server.
   
   I know Windows Server still dominates most smaller business setups. But in Norway it's absolutely ridiculous. Linux is almost viewed as an alien wherever you go. You can get a $50/hour top of the line IT consultant here and they don't even know the difference between "Ubuntu" and "Linux", but instead they've basically memorized every registry key that Windows uses.
   
   IT sector seems inhumanly Windows-focused here
   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 25-May-2018 05:33:50 EDT iona 🐝

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      @quad @sim @rice It is the same in the UK, particularly in the public sector. It's Microsoft or nothing.

      Even Oracle - Oracle! - has a significant grip on some parts of public sector IT here, especially in the NHS. It's very much based around which companies were able to take which bosses out to dinner.