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451 CAOS Theory: Part II: Shuttleworth on Dapper, Linux on the Desktop & Enterprise Adoption

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2006

[ Thanks to The 451 Group for this
link. ]

“We put it to Shuttleworth: what’s the biggest barrier to
enterprise adoption of Linux on the desktop in the enterprise.

Mark Shuttleworth: ‘The primary barrier I
think is pure inertia, effectively, and the fact that you’re
dealing with enormously complex interoperating systems. The
advantage I think we are starting to benefit from in all of that is
that, as companies and offices have become more distributed, more
used to working using Internet protocols effectively as the glue
that holds everybody together, to the extent that you support those
protocols and are able to make employees full participants in the
corporate workflow, the desktop is less and less of a particular
issue…'”


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