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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CLUELESS.... thats all I can say.
Heh...surely coming from a non-pharma person, this is quite cute.
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 ?
Right.. And the company will pump in money to move to Linux and run wine but still get a win32 apps to run via wine. Not mention, the costs associated with training the sales staff. Sure, mate...makes sense
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 ?
Siebel SFA is not a java app. The server can run on most unices (we run it on Solaris) but the clients (SFA clients for desktop use for most sales forces "do not" run on Linux). In addition, are you using their pharmaceutical industry product? You do realize that Seibel is customized to each industry, company and that each company has to pay millions for this?
Not to mention, bigger pharma companies, such as Novartis, still run Windows NT Workstations with a custom win32 app for CRM which backends to their Oracle run servers.