Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th Dec 2007 06:17 UTC
It seems that each distribution has found a niche: Red Hat and Ubuntu are the leaders in their markets, and SUSE is a comfortable runner-up. However, history has shown us that businesses are not content to stay still too long or play second fiddle. So, what will Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu have to do in the new year to gain new ground?
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2007-12-08
I'm at a loss with this global and online desktop thing. It just strikes me as another fad for the sake of another fad. Either you have something to go against Mac and Windows or you don't.
It is not an online app, the way I understand it more like the SLED version of their Enterprise desktop offering.
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/global_desktop.html
The biggest difference in running a Linux distro (in 6 months the Linux distro is still running good). The Windows machine will have spyware/malware, running poorly all clogged up with junk and will need to be wiped and reloaded.
What is ironic is these companies are sitting on a goldmine if they would market their product to a wider range. In the Enterprise I can do everything at work running Fedora 8, Evolution Exchange connector (email), Krdc for remote desktop, FireFox, OpenOffice, Evince PDF, MPlayer, Xine, VLC, Real Player, Flash, I mean you name it and it works perfectly. I have RHEL5.1 Enterprise Server on my laptop and I can perform all of my administration from it. It is just good business sense, no viruses, SELinux (default), IPTables, SETFACL on file systems, Windows does not even compete in the same league for being locked down.