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Re: [PLUG] Linux on the desktop: closer than you think
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On Friday 27 February 2004 09:17 am, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> I was pretty much limiting my overview of the state of Linux on the
> corporate desktop to Free/Open Source and Free Beer software.
Thats always the irritating problem though. For companies that can allow it
and not accept word documents, and MS formats it seems possible to use all
OSS tools. I personally know of one company in that area that internally
uses all OpenOffice and will only except PDFs from external sources.
For those who just want to get off windows, the problem is much harder. If
they just want to "loose windows" but keep office and quickbooks things like
Xandros become more prudent. The other approach is to port these custom apps
inhouse... This can be expensive unless you can find a group of companies
willing to do the migration together.
The state of the desktop IMHO is its ready. Now we just need to get off the
excuses we have built up against migrating. Remember back in 96/97 when
Linux was not ready for the server because things like Solaris w/ iPlannet
and NT 4.0 w/ IIS where "Enterprise Ready"? After much fighting look where
IIS and iPlannet are now ;)
IMHO all that remains are excuses and industry inertia.
Cheers
-ian reinhart geiser
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