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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@Bruno Saverio Delbono
by raver31 on Fri 1st Oct 2004 09:54 UTC

CLUELESS.... thats all I can say.

IBM "Linux Friendly" ?? because they did not release a native copy of Lotus Notes ? hmm, why spend the development time on something that works flawlessly through WINE ?

IBM are in fact one of the biggest Linux supporters there is.

Now you also tried to raise a point about apps, however, you inadvertently gave Siebel as an example. I also use Siebel, but I run it NATIVELY on a Mandrake system. It is the front end to the server which is running Siebel NATIVELY on a Debian server, hmmmmmmmmm how could that be ?
I will tell you how.. Siebel is a JAVA app.
Well Siebel version 7 is, thats what we got here.


See, the main point you should have raised was this.

The 99% of people who do not know what Linux is, should be made aware of it.