On Sunday 13 November 2005 09:52 pm, John Boyle wrote:
To Sle and John Andersen: You have hit the nail on the head! Unless we yell at them, Novell will decimate Suse desktop as soon as they can! Again, I refer to what they did to WordPerfect, and that until Corel stepped in , it was on its way out altogether!!
That is exactly why Microsoft took virtually all Novell's business in a matter of about a year. Mircosoft treated a server as a software component, not an OS. They used what is called Client/Server architecture, where client components request services from server components. On their so-called "server" OS, they provided the same desktop that is available for their traditional end user OS. Anybody who believes they can compete with Micorsoft and not provide a usable, familiar desktop should get out of the software business today. What needs to happen is that we need to convince people that Linux desktops are usable. There are many problems with that. For one, people need to be able to interoperate with the established infrastructure. That means that they have to provide documents that MS Word can handle, and handle in such a way that these documents look professional in MS Word. Don't try to get the average secratary to try Linux. It's not ready for that kind of use. We need to get the technically able people to use it. College students, systems administrators, etc. Steven