Star Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure', claim vendors
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
Linux 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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by Michael Salivar on Fri 1st Oct 2004 05:01 UTC

So how do you demonstrate to them that this lock in is in fact a problem, and that they can eventually fix it if they start the transition to a more portable OS? Do they generally feel the constraint, or do they not really care as long as things are working?