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 rain on Fri 1st Oct 2004 12:04 UTC

You can't just "do it" in corps that have been using Windows for a decade. Too many choices have already been made, software written, and an entire method of doing business being conducted.

I know that it's not something you do during a coffebreak. But it is in my opinion something that's worth investigating. It can actually be worth it.
Besides a lot of enterprise software is written in java and is most likely to run on linux. So that's not a problem in every case.
It is a big decision to make, and it should be considered many times. But the important part is that it's considered.
You'd be pretty stupid if you didn't investigate options that could save the organisation both money and time, even gain productivity. (I'm not saying it will, but it can)

Also, the small companies counts too, because there's a lot of them, it can mean a lot to the market if they switch.

I'm not a big fan of linux on the desktop myself, even though I use it on a daily basis. But I do see it as a serious option, not just a "cheap alternative". It's a much more sound alternative than Mac IMO, even though I like OSX more.