The Economic Times (part of the India Times) is running a story which begins with the rather provocative line
The penguin’s come of age.
which is rather bully on the future of Linux as an enterprise desktop, among other, less flashy uses such as in the server room.
This has, of course, ignited the standard mudslinging [...]
Linux Comes Of Age In India?
Novell Responds to Microsoft, Groklaw FUD
Linux Watch, always on top of things, has a piece on the Open Letter to the Community from Novell that was released yesterday in response to the growing brouhaha over the Microsoft/Novell agreement. Not wasting time, the letter states:
“Our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual [...]
Vista Will Help Linux On The (Corporate) Desktop?
Busy day today…
David Ewalt has a post on his blog over at Forbes entitled Here’s Your Argument For Linux In The Enterprise, which links to James Gaskin’s ITWorld.com article The Vista Budget Vacuum, in which he claims that every employee who migrates to Vista will cost their employer between $3,250 and $5,000.
His logic is pretty [...]
Open source trickle-down
Open source trickle-down by ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn — It is possible to build a credible office PC out of Linux, Open Office and Firefox, but only if you’re a sophisticated user. You lose access to content on proprietary platforms, you may have (or fear you may have) trouble communicating with business partners. It’s a [...]
Microsoft Cranks Up The FUD Machine
Microsoft has brought their Get The Facts campaign off of it’s Summer hiatus, with a Mercer Management Consulting study that claims, among other things, that
…businesses that choose Linux over Windows for their UNIX migrations tend to be less rigorous in how they ascertain potential TCO savings.
Betanews has an excellent writeup of the paper if you [...]
Desktop Linux In The Enterprise
Previously I have talked about issues with desktop Linux that I believe must be resolved before home users will adopt it. Most of these are not as much of an issue for businesses looking to make a move to Linux desktops. Hardware can be selected that willnot have driver issues, DVD playback is a priority [...]
Doing The Numbers
David Wheeler has updated (as of Nov 14, 2005) his paper Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!.
This paper, which has been consistently updated since 2002 concentrates on and organizes most of the quantative data available on Open Source software, and is written for business managers and [...]
Linux Resources Are Both Scarce And Expensive
Many companies are concerned that while Linux is essentially free, it will end up costing them more in the long run becuase of a short supply of Linux administrators and developers. Fortunately, that is not the case.
Linux training is offered at many, many schools now, and many companies report that existing UNIX skills were easily [...]
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