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Story: Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure', claim vendors
Posted by: Olivier Magere (Monday 11 October 2004, 1:15 PM)
And not just about cost and security but also about features.
Linux allows things like sharing a single machine for many light users, virtualising servers, breaking the one machine-one application NT model.
Linux comes with technologies unheard off in the Windows world : USB memory key booting (with encrypted key) environments can be used for hot desking or to boot mobile staff laptops : if the laptop is lost, the data is not and a new machine doesn't need configuration, removing the time consuming (=costly) build of each machine !
Heavy apps can be run remotely through X (no Citrix license needed) on a remote smp machine, and that only takes a desktop icon to do it.
The availability of lowcost industrial strength databases engines enables moving away from local Access DB to easily set-up servers. And since these DBMS can run on big iron, you don't have to worry about starting too small.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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