Bruce Perens on his "Open Source State of the Union" address

Perens: Companies finding desktop space for Linux, part 1
By Jan Stafford, Editor
04 Aug 2004 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci996985,00.html?track=NL-301&ad=488100

"He sticks by his earlier prediction that Linux will run on 30% of
enterprise desktops by 2006."

Bruce Perens: Linux is the system of choice for the engineering field. A
lot of scientists who were using Linux on the server are finding it
easier to put it on the desktop and not have the dichotomy.

"I'll bet that Macintosh users will probably be switching to Firefox."

... "having Mozilla, OpenOffice and a couple of other open source
programs provides all the functionality that most unsophisticated
computer users [use] in their job. After all, 80% of the people who use
a computer don't venture outside of their Web, e-mail, presentation and
office suite."

"Visual Basic ... customers made a bad choice in programming language
and locked themselves into a single product and now they can't get off."

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Received on Thu Aug 5 15:40:31 2004