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IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog But interest in the open source desktop is confirmed, says IBM, by a new independent study by Freeform Dynamics which indicates that more than 70% of Linux desktop deployments are spurred by cost savings and that IT staff say Linux desktops are...
[May 21, 2009, 9:19]
New GNOME version brings Linux desktops two steps closer to business
Blog While "release early, release often" can make reporting on new versions of open source software an exercise in trivia, this time the changes introduced could increase the level of adoption in companies that haven't previously had many Linux desktops.
[April 1, 2009, 9:41]
Police to investigate Linux desktops
News A large project to build an information systems strategy for the UK's police forces is to examine the option of Linux desktops. Valiant's work includes looking into desktop software, and has commissioned a report into Linux desktops from netproject...
[January 23, 2002, 10:03]
SuSE aims Linux at enterprise desktops
News Germany's SuSE Linux on Monday will launch new software and a marketing initiative that aim to make it easy for large organisations to migrate their desktops to the Linux operating system. The new desktop software has already made headlines: it...
[June 9, 2003, 7:33]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
News We completed a shoot-out of Linux desktops designed to find out whether any of them is ready to step into Microsoft Windows' boots as a basic office software platform. The specifications and prices of the packages in our current shoot-out of Linux...
[November 28, 2005, 14:45]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog Comment Thanks Adrian, that clears thing up nicely! I suppose there will need to be a massive sale and then a massive uptake to follow. Are Apple going for a slice of the pie?
[May 22, 2009, 20:20]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog Comment I'm not sure how it will pan out for different vendors Rog - but popular opinion is that 2009 will be the year of differentiation and the time when differing technology propositions will have to stand their ground and justify themselves in this...
[May 21, 2009, 20:57]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog Comment Hi Adrian. I wonder if the apps keep running offline by way of synchronising a mirror image with say a few hundred MBs in reserve. I also wonder if the idea is to use no install executables or to have the app as a full install that runs in...
[May 21, 2009, 19:35]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog Comment I've heard nothing from Apple's Orchard. I did get to interview Ron Okamoto once who was (and may still be) Apple's head of dev relations. But they allow no press at their dev con (as far as I know) and they hardly need the PR do they.
[May 23, 2009, 8:49]
New GNOME version brings Linux desktops two steps closer to business
Blog Comment I have been rebuffed many times when I tried to get business users to try switching from Windows to Linux, because they had to be able to use an Exchange mail server. This is indeed excellent news. One less obstacle in the road, always good.
[March 31, 2009, 13:18]
New GNOME version brings Linux desktops two steps closer to business
Blog Comment If MS doesn't change the protocol again (wouldn't put it past them), this is quite a big deal for desktop Linux in the Enterprise. To me, this is a HUGE deal! As mentioned by Jake, many enterprise installs aren't going to rip out Exchange due to...
[April 1, 2009, 17:45]
Ten reasons Linux desktops lead the way
Talkback I started playing with Mandrake Linux 7.2 back in2001. Linux has become the only system I use now. The command line, terminal, and compiling were used a lot, in those days. It has become simpler, faster, and so much more robust than windows, and...
[June 19, 2009, 14:44]
New GNOME version brings Linux desktops two steps closer to business
Blog Comment "If rip-and-replace was a realistic strategy, changing from proprietary to open source software would be easy. It's not. Thanks for the info, and spot on with the analysis. I commented on jw's piece, and to my mind the take-up of Free Software...
[April 1, 2009, 9:39]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback Its actually funny that Linux isn't the main business desktop. However, I installed for fun a computer with Yoper Linux and found it amazing that we didn't need any of the third party tools to access our Unix server just a terminal which was 100...
[November 28, 2005, 17:51]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback What keeps me from switching my work PC to a Linux desktop? Primarily it's the compay-wide use of Lotus Notes, although I do occasionally have reason to fire up VC++. So I guess I'd need some kind of virtual machine-like arrangement too, so that I...
[November 28, 2005, 22:44]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback "Ubuntu's installer effectively throws the superuser away, giving it a random password and forgetting it, then giving the first user the ability do admin tasks" This is not true. The super user is simply deactivated.
[November 29, 2005, 9:34]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback As a former contributor and developer on the GNOME architecture for many years I can say that GNOME is in no way ready to serve as the corporate desktop. There are simply to many issues inside and around the entire GNOME movement that should be...
[November 29, 2005, 8:48]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback Wine is not an emulator. Your assertion "The Wine Windows emulator" is simply wrong.
[December 1, 2005, 18:27]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback Unix, & therefore, Linux, have had 'group policy'.well, (almost) forever (certainly for the last 20 years. It appears your 'real' complaint is Linux isn't Windows. regarding "Group Policy". Of course, *nix's use different tools than Windows, but...
[November 30, 2005, 14:55]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback Ironic that the text is unreadable in my Linux desktop. I tried Firefox, Opera and Konqueror. None of them display the text. I have to copy it into an editor to read it.
[November 30, 2005, 12:10]
