Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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Pointing to only the cost of licensing for MS products is often minor when looking at the overall picture.
Not if both systems meet the requirements. Even if you include the extra staff education, going with linux will most likely be the best and cheapest solution.
For the typical office, schools etc. linux will do just fine. Not all companies run certain enterprise apps. Actually, the percentage is probably pretty low.
I just don't understand why people are so obsessed with one OS ruling the world. Haven't we seen what monopolies does to the industry, and consumers allready? No matter if it's opensource or not, choice is good IMO. And I'm not talking about different linux distros.
I'm hoping for a world where windows, osx, linux, skyos, haiku, syllable etc. all have decent third party support. Where a company decides to support a platform, not because it's the most popular one, but because it's the best one.
Well, one can dream right.