Enterprise Linux: Are We There Yet?

Simon Crosby writes " Network Computing is running an special report on Linux in the enterprise. It evaluates strengths and weaknesses of Linux useage in the enterprise. It also discusses perceptions, roadblocks, security, clustering and other Linux enterprise issues."

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A beo...

[leuk_he]

This was a usefule article. I now know i have to write:

"image a Scyld Beowulf cluster of these." Whenever they release a new device that can run linux.

On-topic: Re:Are we there? Will anyone ever be.?

[fanatic]

And how about windows NT? I installed the package that allows printing from NT to an IP printer. (I'd been doing this for years, but it magically stopped working. Wierd shit Just Happens in MS crapware...). After the mandatory reboot ("windows has detected a parameter change somewhere in known space. please reboot") NT automagically created a new profile for the same userID I ALWAYS login as. All attempts to switch back to re-using the previous profile (including those with the GUI tools) failed utterly to have any effect. Palm Pilot Desktop stopped working altogether and had to be re-installed. Ditto Notes (oh oh, there's another piece of hard-drive sewage, but that's another rant...). All other apps reverting to the revolting default behaviours (e.g. typeing "PCs" in MSWORD yields "Pcs" because some moronic asshole of a programmer thinks he knows what I want to type better than I do, and buried the nerd-knob that undoes this offensive behaviour behind seven layers of incomprehensible menus in 3 different places).

Summary: Linux may not be ready for the enterprise, but NEITHER IS WINDOWS.