[aklug] Re: windoze 7 sucks

On 10/19/2010 10:48 AM, Damien Hull wrote:
> Linux needs to become a business solution before companies like Dell
> push Linux. Windows is the compleat solution from server to desktop.
> It includes user and data management tools that are easy to use.
>
> Yes, you can do this in Linux but it's not easy. I'm still waiting for
> someone to show me an example. I wanna see a company running Linux
> servers and workstations in an enterprise environment.
>
> This is one area where the open source community is slacking. Just my 2 cents.
>
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Christopher Howard<choward@indicium.us> wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/2010 10:13 PM, Mike Gonnason wrote:
>>
>>> You aren't the target market I guess.
>>
>> I'll never be in their market, let alone their target market.
>> Yesterday's rant was more of an poorly contained overflow after a "fun"
>> experience trying to get my dad's new laptop set up for him under
>> Windows 7. If it was entirely up to me, I would have set him up with
>> Ubuntu: but everybody else in the family seemed to think that Linux was
>> too complicated for him, and I didn't have the energy to convince them
>> all, and then look into the driver issues, etc.
>>
>> Sigh... Linux could easily do everything he wants to do, and probably
>> twice as fast. It's too bad Windows has such a tight grip on the desktop
>> market. Unfortunately, the Linux-on-your-netbook craze didn't give Linux
>> desktop the boost everyone was hoping for. (Personally, I never believed
>> that selling Linux on slow, cheapo netbooks was going to convince anyone.)
>>
>> Is there are big PC resellers/manufactures out there these days really
>> marketing Linux on the desktop? Dell has made them available, but never
>> really stood behind them. ("Dell recommends Windows Vista!" bleh)
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Howard
>> http://frigidcode.com
>> http://theologia.indicium.us
>>
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I don't have time to pull up the links, but I remember watching a video
a year or two ago in which IBM reps were bragging about how that had
completely switched their company's desktop platform over to Linux. The
also talked about how they were really backing three major distros,
IIRC: ubuntu, fedora, and red hat.

I wouldn't think switch any company over to Linux would be real hard if
you could win the entire company over to Linux software and open
standards. Red Hat, e.g., has enterprise offerings. The tough market, in
my opinion, is the "average Joe" market, with the people that either
don't know anything about computers, or are more savvy but are addicted
to their Windoze games.

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Christopher Howard
http://frigidcode.com
http://theologia.indicium.us
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