Angel Stewart wrote: > > They ripped out the innards and corrected all the security flaws in the > OS?
They are working on that. > And it is aimed at the corporate user that wants ...Manageability...to > enable Microsoft to compete with Linux in the corporate environment. Yes. Imagine as a large corporation your employees need basic Office functionality (MS Office or OpenOffice), collaboration / calendering (Exchange or Kroupware / Sunbird), browsing (IE or Firefox). Or you run a call center, and they just need a rich web form to fill out call details. Basic needs, but thousands of computers. Wouldn't it be very attractive in this scenario to just create your own Knoppix CD which mounts /home/ from a NAS for the bulk of your employees compared to paying MS the license cost for Windows and Office? If you are big enough, this scenario already works. The German government has its own Linux distribution. It is tailored for their own needs (buildin encryption for email, ties into the calendaring etc.). Maybe it costs a few million up front to have something like that made for you, but if you have half a million computers that is nothing. And the size you need before this scenario pays off is getting smaller and smaller. All Microsoft can do against this is reduce its own TCO. It can do that by lowering the price of Windows and Office, but that would reduce profit. Or it can do that by reducing the cost of the IT staff by making Microsoft easier to manage so the workplace/techie ratio goes up. > Is that what you're saying? Yes. > And I haven't read any material that suggests how Longhorn is going to be > more 'manageable' than Windows XP, unless the fact that they are fixing > the bugs which were inherent in the Operating System to begin with. Most of what can not yet be managed through Group Policies will be manageable in Longhorn. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135672 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
