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The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops
securitas writes "eWEEK has two related articles on the growth of open source software. The first article is about the growth of desktop Linux, featuring Lotus and the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) founder Mitch Kapor, who says (among other things) that call centers will be where the next wave of growth for desktop Linux happens and that 10 percent of global desktops will be Linux in a few years. He bases his statements on a report by Eazel and GNOME Foundation co-founder Bart Decrem entitled 'Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview' (PDF) mentioned last week. The second story is about open source software growth in the government sector where government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau have embraced OS software for projects like the State and County QuickFacts site. Based on Perl, Apache, MySQL and Linux, the site gets 200,000 page views a day."
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1) Linux has no decent games
2) Dependancy hell!
3) GTK file dialog hell
4) I use a crappy bank that requires windows
5) Linux is illegal because of SCO.
6) My usb scanner won't work
7) RTFM
8) My modem won't work
9) Gimp is not mauling photoshop (love those recursive acronyms)
10) OpenOffice is slow and billixed my
??? and profit don't apply.
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As an IT manager and consultant for a Fortune 100 company, I can tell you there won't be too many Linux desktops in our shop in the near future. It's not like we haven't tried, though, don't get me wrong. Purse strings are tight these days. The economy's in the toilet. I was really hoping that war would pull us out, but it sure didn't last long enough to do much of anything (my company gets a few defense contracts here and there).
Anyway, I digress. So, we had a trial project last year where the secretaries on the fourth floor were all given desktops fitted out with KDE, Gnome, and Ximian, all on top of Linux 8.0. I recently completed a report on the commercial viability of this sort of thing, and the results were not good.
First, it took for-freaking-ever just to get the machines installed. I mean, it's like four CDs just to install linux. Ummm...Windows is one. Guess which is easier. The install process was just miserable. I mean, I'm kinda nearing the "guru" stage, but the rest of the office staff? Newbs!! Once we got them straightened out, thanks to a few calls to the Mandrake tech help line, we finally got the install complete.
Next came the secretaries. Jesus! "Where's Outlook?" "How do I get on the Internet?" "Where's Solitare?" "What do you mean 'recompile the kernel'?" It was NOT a fun day. The first day it took forty-five minutes just to explain to the broads that Microsoft Office WASN'T in the damn start menu. We want you to use Open Office. They couldn't understand why they couldn't use Word anymore. When we tried to explain to them, "Well, this is free!" they just thought we were being cheap. Like using a coupon out on a date. Bad form, fellas. Linux needs to be more corporate-driven. Up the price or something. People hear "free" and think "worthless."
It never really improved. Eventually we scrapped the whole thing. Hell, after the switch back to XP, our productivity went way up. It was so easy, we even let the girls install XP themselves...went off without a hitch. I'm still pitching Linux as a server platform to our CTO, though, at least for some of the less mission-critical apps where scalability isn't as big an issue. Still, it's hard to convince a tech-savvy CTO, especially since a lot of people on the support staff are worried SCO is going to shut down Linux all together.
I thought about trying BSD next, but I heard that was dead.
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