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[News] CIO.com Talks About Using GNU/Linux in the Enterprise

  • Subject: [News] CIO.com Talks About Using GNU/Linux in the Enterprise
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:26:14 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Making the Case for Linux Distros in the Business

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| Are you considering an enterprise-wide switch from a Microsoft operating 
| system to Linux? Or are you using Linux already and want to know how your 
| distro stacks up against others?  
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http://www.cio.com/article/155701/Making_the_Case_for_Linux_Distros_in_the_Business

There's a still a heap of articles about the survey which shows Linux and Mac
will gain in the enterprise, at Windows' expense. There's no need to repeat
the outcomes of the same survey, but the message is made loud and clear in the
media at the moment. Microsoft should worry.


Related:

Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows

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| Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow 
| over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an 
| enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "The high volume of client inquiries for  Linux on the desktop clearly 
| indicates it's not going away any time soon. Expect Linux to experience 
| growth over the next year as the distributors work hard to make it an 
| enterprise-class offering,"   
`----

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217087,00.asp


Related:

New Day Dawning for Desktop Linux?

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| Has the time for desktop Linux finally arrived? One relevant data point is 
| that Wal-Mart has sold out of the Everex gPC, a Google-friendly, Linux-based 
| PC priced at $199.   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071114/bs_nf/56737


Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says  

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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after 
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,  
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as 
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your 
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."   
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616


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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months 
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of 
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by 
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of 
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of 
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell 
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate. 
`----

http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html


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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
`----

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html


Measuring Linux and Open Source

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| How do you measure success?
| 
| This question is often asked in the Linux business and development 
| communities, with various answers given: "the number of servers in 
| the enterprise," "the number of desktop deployments," "or the number 
| of new bugs found in Vista today."
| 
| Measuring success is a matter of definition, and therefore it can be 
| a hard thing to pin down. And, it seems, the challenges of measurement 
| go a lot deeper than something as subjective as "success." 
`----

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6397/1/


Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey

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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says 
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their 
| Linux distribution of choice.  
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html


Survey: Desktop Linux use grows

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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, 
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users 
| in the past year.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html

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