I just moved to a new workplace and as expected, there’s what we call ‘culture shock.’

Although in my case, it’s more of application shock. I am a FOSS advocate. I use FOSS in any machine that I get my hands on. I always search for FOSS counterparts of commercialized softwares. I encourage other people to use FOSS too.

Then it began with telling me to use MS Outlook as my mail client. It went on when they gave me a short list of applications that are usually used. Whoa!

I’m trying to get the hang of it while keeping my advocacy alive. I might be a little non-compliant to their tools just like with virtual machines, I still want VBox for it instead of their licensed VMWare; Notepad++ instead of another licensed UltraEdit; Greenshot instead of Snagit; among others.

However, servers are *nix machines. Ooooohh… love love love. hehehe