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Story: Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project

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Lame excuses

This all looks like lame excuses to me. They claim "that training eats up that sort money". Well, so does Windows XP. In fact, installing Linux systems, such as RHEL or Novell Desktop or Ubuntu is easier than Windows XP. Also, Linux does provide excellent thin-client solutions.

The real issue is not the underlying OS, nor the training, but the software being used. Does the OS support the needed software? And does the OS support the needed hardware? You don't need to waste half a million pounds to answer these simple questions. Using open standards is the best solution for public services like libraries. But even if this is not possible, they could have easily run both systems with the appropriate virtualisation software like XenSource.

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