Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Mar 2006 12:27 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"UNIX and Windows data-center market share remain neck-and-neck, according to most analysts, but many in IT perceive UNIX and Linux innovation as slowing to a crawl. We interviewed representatives from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems who were eager to challenge that perception by highlighting areas in which their UNIX OSs are breaking new ground."
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2005-07-06
Woden was considered to be the leader of the Wild Hunt.
Not talking about workstations. Workstations != desktops.
I do think Linux stands an excellent chance of being a desktop contender for many people when it is pre-installed the way that Windows and Mac OSX is today. The major hurdle for people is installing the OS in such a way that all the hardware is operational, which is solved by pre-installing the same way that other operating systems are.
Not so sure about that there is still alot of work to be done. OS X is Windows main dektop competitor not Linux.
I have only used Windows as a game loader for the last nine years, and I know there are many others like me that have used Workstations for years. Two months ago, I installed a Linux desktop on one employee system and used RDesktop to RDP to the one entrenched Windows application we have - total success, all the employees prefer the KDE experience (although they use Firefox for the extensions they like) over Windows and can use RDesktop to get to the entrenched app - which they used Citrix to get to beforehand.
I personally only "need" windows for games one Mactel get more popular with game developers i am going to jump ship to Mactel. Linux is not one of my desktop considerations yet.