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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Typical FUD.
It turns out that SAP, Siebel and IBM are actively porting their software to Linux. In fact , much of Siebel's application stack already runs on Linux.
Lotus runs on Linux via Wine and does so reliably. Additionally, IBM is now java-enabling Lotus so that it will run everywhere.