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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"Migrating to Linux on the desktop for any large organization isn’t simply a matter of downloading an ISO image and installing it on everyone’s PC. It’s the cost of migrating, testing, and supporting the existing application base on the new platform that will be the real expense."
"Migrating to Linux on the desktop for any large organization isn’t simply a matter of downloading an ISO image and installing it on everyone’s PC. It’s the cost of migrating, testing, and supporting the existing application base on the new platform that will be the real expense."
Amazing how simple the truth is.