Per Jessen
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Subject: [opensuse] Re: Linux not ready for prime time desktop? (was: 1 CD
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PM
Please respond to
opensuse
Uriel_Carrasquilla@ncci.com wrote:
Knoppix, SuSE, etc are not ready for prime time desktop. Not because of
technology
but because most customers insist on Windows.
#TBH, isn't that a bit of a silly comment? If user demand determines when
a Linux distro
#will be desktop ready, it will never happen. I'm sure Billy Gates didn't
judge Windows'
#prime time readiness by what the users wanted.
#Also, the large user communities seem to have no problem with user
readiness? Stadt
#Munich, the French CRS and many others. Thousands of terminals. A large
Swiss health
#insurer recently went to Linux-only thin clients - about 300 of them.
#/Per Jessen, Zürich
Per, very silly indeed, I agree. I am just passing on what my customers
are saying regarding their choice for desktop.
When I grow up I might become a salesman and convice 800 people in my
company to switch their XP for SuSE. In the meantime, I'll let someone
else fight that battle. I can only fight one at a time and I already got
my hands full.
I do believe that once there is acceptance in some signficantly large
organizations, then companies like mine will follow. No one got fired in
the 80's by buying IBM. The same applies in my company but by buying WIN.
All I can do in the meantime, get a few converts here and there. So I am
on your side, don't forget that.
Uriel
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