NewsForge: Organizations Say Hurdles Remain for Desktop Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Speakers and attendees at the open source events of Portland’s
InnoTech Conference last week concurred that Linux was at home in
the enterprise, handling heavier database demands and other
workloads and proving itself on a number of platforms. They also
anticipated that Linux would finally hit the desktop in more
significant increments, but not until open source developers deal
with some obvious deficiencies.

“Jim Wasko, program manager for the IBM Linux Technology
Center’s strategic alliance, reported that Linux is seeing growth
on a variety of platforms including mainframes at New York’s Marist
College and the U.S. Department of Energy; in enterprises beyond
the edge of the datacenter by Warner Brothers, Ritchie Brothers
Auctioneers, and others…”


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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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