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Linux in Enterprise Environments
watzinaneihm writes "Eweek has an Article about how Linux is getting accepted in Enterprises.IBM is releasing Tivoli for Linux. CA released Unicenter for Linux a few months ago.I got rumours about rumours that HP might do something similar with Openview. " One for those of you who dress nicer than me.
If anyone doubts Linux' inroads into the corporate environment, just read today's release from HP. HP now says they have 2 BILLION in annual revenue attribuatable to Linux. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030121/tech_hewlettpackard _linux_1.html
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Actually, you have a choice, you can switch to their advanced server line for at least $800 per server. They will support each rev of that product with errata for up to three years. As for desktops installs...
Imagine if Microsoft only supported an OS for one year from release...
I am not happy at all
That's now what we've found. In fact business in the UK at least are interested in using it for pretty much everything you do on the back end. Here's our latest case study:t udies/kg .html
http://www.siriusit.co.uk/technical/cases
The short version is - GNU/Linux is Enterprise ready, and companies are using it for pretty much everything!
Before linux can EVER make it onto the desktop, somebody is going to have to come up with some type of scripting language besides C.
I'm going off this assumption that this is either a joke or troll, but in case someone actually thinks this:
(1) C is not a scripting language, never was, never will be.
(2) Scripting languages available and commonly used on Linux are Perl, PHP, tcl, shell scripts (bash, tcsh, csh, zsh, et al), Python, Java (I kind of lump that in with scripting languages), and a bunch of others I am forgetting.
If you specifically mean Visual Basic, no it does not exist for Linux. Clones of VB do but probably are not exactly the same.
Finkployd
This is a "me,too!" post just in case someone from IBM is listening...
In my spare time, I'm the admin of a small office network (~10 PCs when fully deployed) which uses SuSE as desktop OS after endless troubles with an aging NT4 installation. The users mostly love it, and generally find it to be easier to use than NT (which is not surprising since it does not constantly act up like NT did). Staroffice turns out to be a suboptimal but acceptable replacement for MS Office, and the only thing we have to run in Wine is Notes R5.
Since we need the advanced facilities of the client (i.e. not just mail) we need the genuine article, and not e.g. a third party mailer or a web interface.
Even though Wine is a terrific application, there are always some problems with complex apps like Notes, especially for advanced features like database views. Also, the users find the idea of one program basically being a Windows app in a KDE world pretty confusing (KDE itself is fine for them), and configuration of this setup is troublesome. A native Notes client with KDE integration would be extremely nice to have - come on, IBM, you can't tell me you haven't been working on this anyway!
A.W.
According to this article, IBM is providing iNotes web access this quarter, with client technology "next quarter".
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Tivoli already runs on Linux for quit some time. The importance of the news is in the widening of the support.
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Notes client will be introduced by IBM. This is really important news as it makes it not mandatory anymore to have Windows on the desktop.
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20030119S000
Thanks,
Gerard Meijssen
You can read why they don't want to build a native client from the horse's mouth at LDD Today
For those that want to see a Domino Designer for platforms other than Windows, I'd ask a simple question: what do you think DXL is for?