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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This can be a serious issue! Most of my development work over the last ten years has been with the Canadian Federal government and I can tell you that large organizations have an enormous amount of custom written Visual Basic apps, and IE specific web applications that would need to work seemlessly on a Linux desktop. Any large organization would need to independently verify that each app would work on the proposed system before rolling it out. Running an App in VMWare or with WINE/Crossover office would still require the testing effort. Imagine that cost! It takes them years just to roll out new versions of windows. What is the solution to this? It would be nice if all applications were written in cross-platform a language or toolkit, or if web applications supported other browsers, but that isn't the case.