12 May
2005
12 May
'05
15:31
its2am@gmail.com wrote: > My personal opinion is that Linux (in general) has improved > drastically over the past 5 years, but is still only about as usable > (for a desktop system) as Windows 98 was. It's hard to discuss Linux in general, I think, but your comparison is probably not too bad. >From a corporate point of view, at the moment there is nothing else I need on the Linux desktop - we use thin clients, no probs. From a personal pov, I would love to see some more games, but that's all that is left (for me) on Windows. > Red Hat has the advantage of being the flavor of choice in America, > which is a pretty big, unified market. There was also news yesterday > of Michael Dell's investment of $99.5 million into Red Hat. The > European market is fragmented, to say the least. There is a pretty big german-language market, which SuSE probably has a really good penetration in. I'm not sure the European is as fragmented as you think. > What does all this mean? I hope some intelligent folk on this > list will chime in, but my opinion is that SuSE will maintain its > small sliver of a market share, and some new brains will be found to > replace those who've left Novell, and the world will continue to turn. I second that. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - überzeugen Sie sich - 30 Tage kostenlos und unverbindlich!