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eWeek: Novell’s New CTO Says Linux Desktop Is Ripe for Adoption

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 2006

“Novell’s new CTO Jeff Jaffe is very bullish on the outlook for
the Linux desktop going forward, saying he believes it is on the
cusp of a significant adoption wave.

“‘I think we are approaching a tipping point on the enterprise
desktop side. The industry has built a commercial infrastructure to
make it easy now for more open-source projects to be relevant to
business,’ Jaffe said…”

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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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