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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In the pharmaceutical company I work for migration to a Linux desktop would be be a lot easier now than it used to be. Our ERP runs on Oracle (on AIX and Linux servers) and of course the intranet front end works with Mozilla as well as IE.
In the laboratory our Chromatography management and LIMS systems both run on Windows. However both are now used from Citrix servers. I have been able to use them from the Citrix Linux client on my Linux box without problems.
What stands in the way is the Windows entenched ideas of those parts of the IT department managing the corporations desktops.