Alternative To Windows Desktops

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 15, 2003 @05:17AM from the what-will-the-world-bring-next dept.

Eric_Z writes "Ace's Hardware has got a article called "The Mad Hatter meets the MSCE" by Paul Murphy, about the TCO benefits of using UNIX(Lintel) instead of Wintel. According to the piece: 'The subject of this article looks at alternatives to the Windows desktop, which is a hot topic these days with IBM/SuSe scoring a highly public win in Munich with desktop Linux, and Sun aiming to build on StarOffice being the leading alternative to Microsoft Office with a software stack code-named Mad Hatter which Sun also plans to use extensively in-house. But companies depending on Microsoft Certified Engineers to adapt to Linux will carry over a number of problems, significantly increasing the chance of project failure. Paul considers the alternatives, the migration problems, and in seeking a more reliable alternative takes the opportunity to look at the business desktop from an entirely different angle, and propose a more radical solution.'"

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Nice timing... by Basje · 2003-09-15 05:31 · Score: 5, Informative

... as it was just yesterday that it became know that Ford Motor Company is joining the ranks. They are switching from Windows to Linux

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Re:Solaris 10 Mad Hatter screenshot by Kedder · 2003-09-15 05:40 · Score: 5, Informative

This looks like regular Gnome2, which is included in new Solaris versions...

The real MadHatter screenshots seems to be here.