Posted on 10/15/2010 7:46:47 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Big business loves Linux for servers and they seem to like it more than you might expect for the desktop. That said, enterprises still have some concerns about Linux. Here's the top five as picked by people who responded to The Linux Foundation's recent corporate and government end-user survey: "Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users."
Before diving into these problems, I'd like to point out something. These are the opinions of business people who, for the most part, are already Linux users. Questions like, whether KDE or GNOME is the better desktop interface or just how cool Ubuntu 10.10 is, matter a whole lot less to them then do to Linux fans or programmers. Instead, they care about how they can use Linux to advance their work. They don't love Linux for its own sake. They love it because of what it can do for them. So, let's get on with their list of concerns in the order they gave them in importance.
1. Drivers
Yes, its 2010 and almost any device you can name inside or outside a computer has a Linux driver, but 39.4% of business users still have concerns about Linux drivers. Sigh.
Greg Kroah-Hartman's, a Linux kernel developer and a Novell engineer, Linux Driver Project (LDP), has been creating Linux drivers for years for anything that any vendor brought to the project that needed one made for it for years now. Kroah-Hartman and his crew of open-source developers charge nothing to create Linux hardware drivers. Despite that, a handful of companies still won't release Linux drives. Other companies, like Wi-Fi chip vendor Broadcom, that have been slow to release Linux drivers has recently taken to making them. So what's the real problem?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.computerworld.com ...
What happened to Golden Eagle?
I’m still waiting for the mythical open source Exchange killer.
He just stopped coming to the party.
Microsoft stopped paying him?
Microsoft complains about Linux and public domain, but Linux came out of Bell Labs more than a basement dweller in Finland, and Bell Labs was a Microsoft like company in many many key respects. Bell was fiercer and more successful than Microsoft on maintaining it’s monopoly for generations! It’s tech labs were laid-back campuses back in the fifties.
Microsoft dominated the PC age like Bell dominated the phone age. And today ... a new age is starting.
We are no longer in the phone age or the PC age.
Whatever happened to him, anyway?
Remember the “Lie List?” I still have a copy of that somewhere....
That’s an excellent testimony. What distro do you use?
I've probably messed around with just about every distro out there over the years. I still play around with new ones or new versions constantly. For servers though it is Red Hat. Come to think of it I have never made a technical support call to them, ever.
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