Unix Vs Microsoft Essay

Giovanni Malnati

Casa del Libro

UNIX VS MICROSOFT

        This case scenario takes us back to the beginning of the present century, where online business started to appear in our lives. Since those years, the way we can buy a product or service changed forever, and business had to change too. Some companies started first, and for some others it took a while to get into this new advanced technology. At the beginning, most of them were afraid to start into this new method, but with the pass of the time they realized that it was the right way, otherwise they would have stayed in the past.

        One of this businesses that did not want to stay behind and be part of the change was Casa del Libro. This bookseller shop is one of the biggest in Spain. This area was ruled by El Corte Ingles, which was number one seller in book shops, but that was not the case at online selling. Casa del Libro wanted to be pioneer in this market, and then is when they planned to invest in a new platform that can take them to the lead with a better service in general.

        To start in this new venture, they contracted a consultancy firm that was going to be in charge of the Unix platform, which was the platform that they decided to use at the beginning. Everything seems to be well directed like it was going to be a successful plan, but time revealed the opposite. They decided to hire another consultancy firm to see what was going on, and the results showed the disaster that the consultancy firm signed to make the work did. Here we can see how sometimes is not a good idea to hire external companies to make the work, because sometimes is not your fault but the only one affected at the end is us and our company. The same way they decided to contract well prepared employees for the company, they have had hired well prepare people for all the areas and also for the IT area.

        When all that mess appeared, two guys from the company decided to analyze what is the best option for the future of the company. The options that they set were, to stay with the same platform which is UNIX, or to step aside and switch to a cheaper and easier platform as Microsoft.

        Personally, I think the company should still use UNIX because of different ideas that came to my mind while a was analyzing the case scenario. The investment on getting the Unix platform, software and hardware was already done and the best action to take is to hire the right employees, able to do an impressive work with the platform. Staying with Unix will also make them save money, because starting to work with Microsoft will create a new investment.