Network Performance Daily: Ten Years of Pushing Linux Adoption in the Workplace (And Why I Gave Up) | Linux Today

Network Performance Daily: Ten Years of Pushing Linux Adoption in the Workplace (And Why I Gave Up)

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 2, 2007

“Around the mid-nineties, I worked for the Network Operating
Systems support group in Dell – third level support for the
enterprise server division. As an employee there, I was trying to
use Linux on my laptop in Dell’s corporate environment. I purchased
third-party provided connectors into Exchange, and ran Office-type
applications as well. But it didn’t work very well.

“For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this
thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use
Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not
ready…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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