-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frans de Boer wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 10:31 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
It seems that you are talking about corporate users, which is a whole different ballgame. I recall that I was talking about consumers, who do not have remote support. If Linux and/or other OSS is not accepted by consumers, my bet is that the most corporate desktops will have MS-Windows on it for a long time to come. Why: most consumers do not want to learn something new AND
The weakness in this argument is the assumption that those who operate corporate I.T. solutions want ordinary corporate users to be able to configure their machines. This rather like giving the inmates the keys to the asylum with most of the associated risks. While MS desktops can be locked down, with Linux/Unix this process is both simpler and more sophisticated for competent sys admins. One cannot really satisfy the needs of Consumer and Corporate userspace with a single solution. Being good at the Corporate/Technical product delivery is in the mid to long term much more profitable than being good in consumer product delivery. With the development of and increasing focus on 'Cloud' solutions (where basic users effectively outsource their I.T. support requirements) and better internet connectivity, the basic consumer will eventually only need something which can run a browser (and we go full circle from the original ugly dumb terminal for a knowledgeable user to dumb but pretty terminal for the 'dumb' user). Focussing on the consumer desktop is really in some ways looking at yesterdays problem....
Frans.
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