Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!
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Ahh. Another "Gnome has won this mythical corporate desktop battle that doesn't exist amongst companies that don't matter" article. I thought these were becoming more scarce, but apparently some people still believe this tosh. I really don't know how this got posted really.
A good half to two-thirds of all desktop Linux users today are KDE users, and the corporate market which Novell in particular seem to think exists (at least Red Hat have said there's no such thing) doesn't. How many companies have you been into where you've seen the NLD or Sun's Java Desktop System? None I'll bet. The vast majority use desktop Linux through OpenSuse, Fedora, Kubuntu or just plain Debian or another distro with KDE on it. Few people actually use desktop Linux in businesses, but no one uses those corporate offerings.
Gnome uses Gnome on their servers, but the lack of good graphical tools to do just about anything tells you that they've made the wrong decision ;-). The development platform is everything, and if you want people to develop for desktop Linux and "pick one" like the author says, then I'm afraid there's only one choice ;-). What are Novell doing? Who knows? Who cares? And who cares what desktop environment they use on their server OS whose market share is in freefall. Sun? Who are they and what have they done?
This is just an article written by someone who wishes things to be a certain way, but they're just not. The reasoning, or lack of it, is the same wishy washy stuff we've had from the same usual suspects for years. Nothing has changed.