Although Linux poses “some migration risks”, the operating system is maturing rapidly and will be ready to go head-to-head with Windows on corporate desktops within two years, industry analysts have predicted.
UK-based analyst Butler Group also maintained that the open source platform is ready to be considered as a viable alternative in the data centre. Butler Group claimed that Linux as an enterprise server operating system could enable businesses to reduce the number of operating systems they run, thereby reducing operating costs. But the analyst warned that this comes with “some risks”. “Linux does not provide a universal remedy and suffers from the same issues of deployment and maintenance as other platforms,” Butler Group stated in its report. “There is a risk that companies moving to Linux, without management processes in place and centralised control of the IT environment, will suffer during any migration.”
Source: vnunet
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