-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 April 2003 11:56 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:

<http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=TechUpdate&id=392800>

However, enterprises must be careful not to view Linux as a panacea. Although in some situations Linux may be appropriate, on the desktop it isn't always less expensive or easier to manage then Microsoft operating systems and applications (see "Myths of Linux on the Desktop"). This is why a tried so much to get onboard as a beta tester. To give input as an end-user to the devel team to shore up the aspects of the Desktop and what the commoners see/need/use. I think Gartner is still seeing things as many do, about 12 to 18 months behind the devel cycle. Given that this sort of rhetoric echos what they said about Linux in enterprise I translate this into Linux isn't "percieve" as ready for the Desktop. Fact of the matter, any admin team worth it's salt could get Linux up and running on the Desktop with relatively the same effort as getting Window setup. Let's fact it, we know M$ isn't going to go away. On the otherside (and moreover) neither is Linux. The desktop implimentation is an inevitablity and M$ knows it. I am given great solice with the aspect that Gates, Balmer and crew are losing sleep over this. I know it giving them fits and it could happen to a nicer group of monopolists. :) Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sA4a7WVLiDrqeksRAsbwAKCTTFm8dLiUAyfI7Meg9c+CYGR/ZgCfe9OF I3G6nzmTKfyBQr5x8qf3pec= =5uNL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----