I always like to share information about how Windows or Linux is perceived on the desktop, but this little article puts it stronger than I ever would!
Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate IT departments, according to leading CIOs.
Just this week new research by the National Computing Centre (NCC) found only one Linux desktop for every 300 currently running Windows XP in UK organisations. Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury backed the view that the Linux desktop dream is dead.
Rorie Devine, IT director at Betfair.com, said Linux would have to change drastically to compete at desktop level.
He said: "There would have to be a unified vision of where the components fit together and application developers would have to be able to work to that and have a mass market. At the moment there are too many options for the Linux desktop to support mass market tools. A more likely Unix on the desktop is Mac OS X."
Source: CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead - silicon.com
Posted
Thu, Nov 9 2006 7:00 AM
by
David Overton