Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Nov 2006 20:52 UTC, submitted by Esther Schindler
Not necessarily what you expect from the top managers: Halamka judged three operating systems according to a variety of criteria including their performance, user interfaces and enterprise management capabilities, such as the ability to configure applications, easily organize file systems, and establish granular security control. CIO.org followed Halamka's progress, and now they have his conclusions.
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2006-09-05
Regarding updates: You have the choice to update or not. It is up to you to decide. This is the same as with other operating systems. If everything works, there is no need to upgrade. If you decide to upgrade, you have made the decision.
Regarding binary driver (e.g. nvidia). I am using Matrox :-) but that is besides the point. We are talking about business functionality and for that is the driver shipped with the distribution just fine. I use my box for development and management of software projects and the binary driver doesn't provide me any advantages I couldn't live without.
The same goes for mp3 and mpeg support. Business user does not need them. If it does it could always opt out for the supported Red Hat distro.
To get the Java working is actually quite trivial
Since I opted to use operating system which I do get for free I understand that there will be some amount of limitations of manual work that needs to be done. Everything I needed to resolve I could easily find on the web, e.g.
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
The point is business controls its evironment and can make smart choices what to use and how to use it. We are very large organization (>50k people). Every type of the computers purchased is first certified by the IT department. Every type of computer has standard disc image that was tested and certified. I believe this is common practice in smaller and larger organizations. It is upto IT or the technology provider to setup everything to work for the business users out of the box. If the business user decide to tweak it, it better know what he is doing or he can mess up the box regardless of what operating system is using.