Neither SCO Group’s copyright claims on select Linux code nor Microsoft will be able to slow the spread of Linux in the enterprise over the next two years, an analyst for Gartner Research said. The biggest hurdles to greater Linux enterprise penetration are process-based, according to George Weiss.
Gartner: Linux Process, Not Tech, Biggest Hurdle
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I guess the FUDmasters have run out of good techincal reasons why Linux can’t possible ever have any kind of marketshare, they now have to attack the very process by which it was built to be as good or better software.
I guess it is true.
First they ignore you,
Then they fight you,
Then you Win.
No MSFT isn’t going away anytime soon, not at least before 2020 at any rate they have way to much cash to allow for that to happen. My only hope is the MSFT of 2020 is very different towards their customers than MSFT of today.
I guess the same could be said for a lot of projects.
I wonder how the conference looked like.Five mins talk and than a commercial break?
I believe the quote was:
First they ignore you
Then they ridicule you
Then they fight you
Then you win
I thought they laughed at you at some point. It comes before fighting you.
First they Ignore you…
Then they Laught at you…
Then they Fight you…
Them you Win…
Mahatma Gandhi
One thing that is certain, NO one can predict the
future for sure.
Another fact, Technology skills are now quoted
as being a commidity because of ‘Outsourcing’
Technical jobs for cheap wages. Plus the days
of high paying Technology/engineering jobs are
over.
The Information Technology, was the savior when
the Manufacturing jobs were all gutted by
NAFTA, now the same goes for these High skilled
jobs they are in the same boat. Right now
the Medical field is in high demand, but give
it a few years and some H1B visa’s it will
be a ‘commodity’ job also. In the end the USA
with its ‘Service Economy’ will collapse upon
itself. Just like Rome, if you import all your
goods, make nothing and try to keep it going
with Trillions in deficit it will break.
Just give it some time.
>In the end the USA with its ‘Service Economy’ will collapse >upon itself. Just like Rome, if you import all your
>goods, make nothing and try to keep it going
>with Trillions in deficit it will break.
And then the rest of you will be screwed aswell (remember the dark ages when Rome fell?), at the moment it’s the US that’s keeping the rest of the world afloat, sure if something isn’t done the US will go bankrupt at some point in the future, but if it does (not when), the rest of the world can say good by aswell. And no, China is not yet ready to take up the slack, it’s still only a 1/7th of size of the US in terms of purchasing power and at current growth rates it will take about 20 years to catch up (note that average salaries in china are only about $5000 per year).
I’m the first to equate a Gartner opinion with worthless drivel, actually with downright harmful and blatantly false drivel. But this time it was actually reasonable: the author didn’t suggest that his five “process” issues were insurmountable or devestating, he just noted their existence and their relative significance to other existing issues such as SCO. I think he’s correct about it, too.
Granted, he could have noted a couple of very positive signs about each one:
1. The potential for multiple source code distribution to cause fragmentation.
Although frequently mentioned as a risk, forking in the real world is almost always either a) irrelevant, or b) highly positive. Irrelevant forks just wither away and don’t really impact progress, and highly positive forks (like x.org) are one of the big strengths of Free software.
2. Higher support costs that increase total cost of ownership (TCO) with demanding workloads.
For one, these will drop as usage grows. For another, it may not be true in an apples-to-apples comparison. What if the support is better? Support for F/OSS software certainly has more options, like “here’s how to compile it specially for your new processors and get a 10% speed increase.” Support like that can be worth many times its cost, and isn’t even available with proprietary software.
3. OSS licenses that could proliferate beyond users’ abilities to manage them.
This issue is being confronted as we speak by appropriate, independent organizations that have the respect of the community.
4. Frequent open source software releases that create potential compatibility dependency issues.
This is largely solved by some distros that get a lot of flack for it. Debian + backports of a few specific apps is ideal for businesses wanting stability and compatability. That said, there is plenty of room for improvement here. (ahem…Debian…ahem)
5. And potential patent and copyright issue exposure that could raise risk management concerns.
This is also true, but it’s not proving to be a very big impediment.
I agree with your assessment. Only one small addition FWIW;
>>3. OSS licenses that could proliferate beyond users’ abilities to manage them.
>This issue is being confronted as we speak by appropriate, independent organizations that have the respect of the community.
I’d add “…just as propriatory licences are currently beyond the users’ abilities to manage”.
“The biggest hurdles to greater Linux enterprise penetration are process-based”, according to George Weiss….
And in the same breath, he mentioned that it just so happened to be a co-incidence that Gartner sells those very processors required to get Linux up and running within and organisation
Considering that if one were to deploy a Linux (or any other solution), one would purchase a support contract from the software company they bought the software off.
The whole article is written on the assumption that an organisation would deploy a purely opensource solution and that the inhouse IT would provide all the support – both end user and software.
The fact remains, that isn’t the case. What is keeping Linux back in business is the lack of the necessary software with the necessary features required for day-to-day business work.
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One of the good things with a registration process – able to put a name to the idiots who press ‘report abuse’.
I’d love that person to actually POST here explaining his or her actions rather than being a one-hit-wonder troll.
>Of course, that can also describe the Nazi party’s rise to power in 1920-1933.
No it couldn’t since the Nazis won the election, and they were the first to start fighting.
Uh, that’s why it describes the Nazis *rise* to power.