Per Jessen wrote:
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Per, very silly indeed, I agree. I am just passing on what my customers
are saying regarding their choice for desktop. When I grow up I might become a
salesman
and convice 800 people in my company to switch their XP for SuSE. In the
meantime, I'll
let someone else fight that battle.
Of course a lot depends on how your company operates IT, but one of way of
working this is
1) decide to go Linux, 2) then sell it to the users. I don't know of many
companies
where the _users_ actively decide the IT strategy.
My point was - just because your users aren't falling over oneanother to go Linux, it
doesn't mean the Linux desktop isn't ready for prime time. They're two very
different
things.
I do believe that once there is acceptance in some signficantly large
organizations, then companies like mine will follow.
I don't know the situation in your part of the world, but in Europe it's public
administration that's been moving really fast in this area. Especially in
Germany and
France, but Britain and Switzerland are now catching up. And when a large
health-insurer
like CSS (www.css.ch) decides to go for Linux-based thin clients, it's very
significant
(given that Swiss IT is generally very conservative).
All I can do in the meantime, get a few converts here and there. So I am
on your side, don't forget that.
Oh, absolutely - it was perhaps just the way you phrased that statement that
got me out of
my otherwise comfortable armchair :-)
/Per Jessen, Zürich
I agree that one of the major hardware vendors needs to step up and
offer GNU/Linux as part of their regular offerings. Offer users a
choice of Linux or Windows on standard hardware. That would go a long
ways towards building the user base. In terms of organizations
migrating to GNU/Linux, I'd say the educational system is making headway
here in the US. Indiana high schools will put Novell Linux Desktop on
some 1600 student desks. Another company (camera company, I believe) is
using GNU/Linux for POS terminals. I forget which distro - may have
been another Novell account. Seems like another school system here is
migrating also.
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