[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“‘It works 98 percent of the time. But it’s the 2 percent of the
time it doesn’t that kills you.’ Words from a corporate technician
describing Windows? No, it’s a comment voiced at LinuxWorld, the
annual gathering of Linux adherents and prognosticators. The voice
was none other than Jeremy White, president and leading Linux
software developer at Minnesota-based Codeweavers. The audience was
a group of Linux network administrators… and they nodded when he
said it.“As the recent purchaser of Ximian and SuSE Linux, Novell feels
competent to speak out on desktop Linux, and it’s done so through
Jack Messman, CEO of Novell. ‘Linux desktop need a little more work
to be consistent,’ says Messman. ‘I don’t know how much of that
will come about this year.’“The complaints voiced about the current Linux effort to unseat
Windows are not uncommon. ‘It’s a big pile of lumber with no
agreed-upon standards,’ said White, focusing on the extreme
diversity and variety of Linux as an impediment to software
standardization. The larger Linux software vendors have often
complained that a lack of standardization among distributions or
even desktop interfaces has inhibited Linux’s ability to penetrate
the corporation…”