> Sorry but I completely disagree with you David - > > If you mean big money making companies to switch their servers to Linux > - you can forget that. I use Linux at work for a test bed. For the rest > there's Solaris. Like me there are many other engineers who think it > that way (replace Solaris by SCO UNIX / HP / Windows Based Servers). > Reason being support.
Like: --------> IBM: http://www.ibm.com/linux/ --------> Sun: http://www.sun.com/linux/ --------> Novell: http://www.novell.com/linux/ > If you mean for desktop - again - I don't think Linux is yet suitable > for desktop computers in companies - Calendar/Scheduling a-la MS Outlook > is just the tip of the iceberg. True, but all important: Bynari/SUSE. > Not to mention the number of secretaries > and clerks employed because of their experience in Windows. Secretaries learn to the environment required amd adapt...as do we all. > What follows is my opinion, but Linux does not have a place in industry > (even IT managers who are into Linux know that, unless of course in the > near future, Sun for example, makes Sun Linux more feasible and > deployable for servers).. In a nutshell, what I think is that Linux is > more easily to be introduced in schools at the moment. And *that* should > be the target - again, IMHO. > > That's the place of Linux - schools... Unless people will not "grow" > with Linux mentality, it will be like trying to explain the old species > that the world is round. And by schools I mean at a college (secondary > school) level. It takes time for adaptation. The place for any OS to grow is where it can show worth: in the field. Just think FreeBSD. Regs. Iain.
