Sydney Morning Herald: Demystifying the Black Art of Linux

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"Starting this week, more than 700 IT professionals will attend Linux education events staged by Novell and IBM in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. The vendors say their low-cost workshops will jump-start the exploitation of Linux in business beyond the pilot project, by demystifying the free operating system and exposing myths.

"These include a perception that Linux is complex and command-line-driven, difficult to use and understand, immature, hard to manage, not ready for important applications, has an unfamiliar user interface and requires people to do lots of retraining..."

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