totally agree
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| jsusanka Mar 22, 2006 8:51 AM EDT |
I totally totally totally agree. if you are trying to sell you os for the desktop you better be using for your own company. this has always been one of my pet peeves. |
| SFN Mar 22, 2006 10:28 AM EDT |
Here too. With one exception:Quoting:It's a little thing.... No. It's huge. A company trying to push a product at a Linux trade show should be required to have great big neon signs over their displays that say "DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM ME!!!" |
| Libervis Mar 22, 2006 10:58 AM EDT |
Indeed. It is a matter of company's trust to its own product. If they can't trust it and thus run it themselves, who can? Novell shows that they indeed to trust what they are doing and that is good both for us and for them. Kudos to Novell! |
| jimf Mar 22, 2006 11:24 AM EDT |
This is also the only way that the 'MS is the only worthy Enterprise software' myth get busted. Novell will now have the opportunity to fully wring out Linux in an enterprise environment and answer some of the MS inspired worries and questions with authority and assurance. |
| tadelste Mar 22, 2006 12:21 PM EDT |
Jim, They did this two years ago. So, did Sun with JDS sitting on SLES 8. I won't say what they discovered. I was pretty appalled to learn that Sun and Novell were 100% Microsoft desktop shops when they tried the experiment. |
| jimf Mar 22, 2006 1:00 PM EDT |
So what is this saying?. They can't learn and adapt Linux to the enterprise. Or, they just can't learn.... Or??? In my thinking, just from a security aspect, MS is and probably never will be up to any kind of 'Enterprise standard'. MS's claim to any enterprise capability is a wholly purchased attribute, done through under the table bribes, threats, misinformation, and god knows what else. None of it has to do with Windows capability, but once established, it's proving to be one tough nut to crack. |
| sharkscott Mar 22, 2006 6:33 PM EDT |
I am so naive that I did not know that they had been doing that up to this point. I lost and regained respect for Novell all at once. Shows you what I know. |
| jdixon Mar 22, 2006 6:51 PM EDT |
> I won't say what they discovered. Well, from public comments by Novell, they've discovered that a complete switchover from Windows to Linux is almost impossible. I think they've converted in excess of 50% of there desktops the last I had heard, and were on their way to 80% or so, but that last 10-20% may not be doable. There are just to many dependent apps and too many ways Microsoft winds its tentacles into your operation to get rid of all of them quickly or easily. Now, they'll probably get to the point where the necessary apps can be run from a few Citrix servers, and everyone has Linux desktops, but that's probably as far as they'll get. And this doesn't even consider employee resistance to the switch, which can be considerable. All in all, switching a business the size of Novell, much less someone much larger, entirely to Linux is an extremely difficult undertaking, and probably not worth the effort for most companies. Probably the best we can hope for is a gradual changeover, where those whose apps allow for easy switching and are willing to switch are migrated first, and the rest migrated over time, as the Windows related apps are retired and replaced with Linux compatible equivilants. |
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