Desktop Linux Set To Take On Longhorn

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited September 2004
    "migration risks" does that mean IT retraining all the windows users? Until they make it act just like windows, and use windows terminology it wont happen. I mean the first time you ask a user if the drive is mounted, there will be a long silence, then a "ummm the drive is installed in the pc yes" then you say no thats not what I mean then there is a click they hang up and later you find them with windows xp home disk in hand trying to migrate themselves back to windows...

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    exactly my thoughts. "Some migration risks"??? I can't imagine rolling out linux desktops to ANY of the office environment clientele that we handle. It would be a nightmare of extraordinary magnitude.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    my entire office operates on linux, unix, and solaris almost entirely. we have windows machines, but all we do with them is log into the linux machines remotely :D
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Yeah, but most of our clients are 45-65 year old women who use wordperfect and microsoft word all day every day. And they HATE change.

    Hell, many of them threw fits just going from win98 to winXP.....
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited September 2004
    yeah.. atleast with xp you can make it look like 98 kinda...

    We migrated users to xp and I got calls all day everyday for weeks. This was a win 98 to xp migration... God forbid we left windows and went to linux..

    I do believe I would be checking myself into the nutter hospital my wife works at, for some intensive therapy and relaxation....


    xXUSERXx
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