-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 April 2003 08:56 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
GOOD article from Joe Barr.....wish we could get him to use SuSE! I've tried to get him "there."
Fred ______________
LINUX GAINING INTEREST FROM WALL STREET (Source: Computerworld) Here at the Linux on Wall Street Show and Conference, the answers centered on the open-source operating system’s adaptability, security, reliability and potential in allowing IT departments to customize it to fit their needs.
The comments about "testing" Linux on the desktop and "going slow" are not surprising to me. They did the same thing on the server side. What was it?... About 18 months ago a couple of guys in my Tribes2 clan were asking me all sorts of questions about Linux because they were IT admin/mgrs for small/medium size companies (about 100 employees) that couldn't afford the new Licensing 6 plan by M$ so were looking for alternatives. This was the first indications that many might be seriously considering a migration over to Linux on the server/enterprise side of things. Today (18 months later) we see Linux be implemented on a fairly large and growning scale - so much so that M$ officially declared Linux as the #1 threat in their 10 Q report, as well as tacitly conceeding that bashing Linux was doing more harm than good to M$ aspiration. So, the fact that a fair amount of Wall Street companies are intertaining the "idea" of Linux on the desktop is a very promising sign IMHO. Considering that most IT departments are very conservative regarding implimentation of this sort of stuff I translate this into - "if it can be made to interoperate with the apps we need to run then it's a serious consideration" and given the price:cost ratio and ROI factors if these companies do indeed find they can run the apps they need then Linux Desktop will take wings AFAICT. I'm sure they'll have no quams about paying for Linux support contracts verses M$ ones should this come to fruitition. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+lYej7WVLiDrqeksRAk+1AKDKZRJo8LmUFi/KHACSxuncx+ormgCfeYXW b0UmFB1eiMeq5tQvzpUSB2g= =FuJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----