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 Anonymous on Fri 1st Oct 2004 06:51 UTC

"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."

Not at all FUD.
Who wants to run anything "via" something in a production enviro? Nobody. Lotus isn't a hot ticket less java, can't wait for it to get more hosed so it will run everywhere.