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Lockheed Replaces 10,000 Solaris Seats with Linux
bl8n8r writes "Citing hardware and software TCO, a source close to Lockheed Martin says the aeronautics giant will be replacing 10,000 of its Solaris seats with Linux. The article mentions AutoZone, IBM, SCO and Daimler Chrysler and what may be in store for Lockheed Martin.
'Every engineer has a Microsoft PC sitting next to their Sun Blade,' said their source. 'That's for business applications, and Linux is no threat there. It's Sun who has to worry.' Wait till they find out how much they can save running OpenOffice."
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The article slanders OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is a software provided without technical support, which without doubt Lockheed Martin would demand a product that accompanies a minimal support plan; the purpose of StarOffice made renew. Consider OpenOffice is a licensed open-source through the GPL, and StarOffice is provided through a license at barter unlike OpenOffice; I rebute the notion that Lockheed Martin will "save" money to replace ever Sun+Solaris Sparc Workstation on the basis that an engineer's duty is not to interact soley with the nuances of an Sun-unsupported product OpenOffice verses a Sun-EULA-supported product StarOffice and that as well the semantics of administration from within a Linux-based workstation will not be a complete replacement to a Sun workstation: engineers are "engineers" upon a platform other than computer software and typically the knowledge of an engineer is most efficient in using the software not attached to the platform OS; the end-user software. As well, it is common sense that Sun-provided hardware is higher-quality and magnitudes greater efficiency in architecture, fore-casted power consumption by performance per gold dollar than is possible by a lesser x86+Linux platform and a Sparc+Linux.
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The future of computing sees 4 surviving standards, ranked in order of marketshare.
1. Windows on x86 (including both Intel and AMD)
2. Linux on x86
3. Linux on PowerPC
4. MacOS (FreeBSD) on PowerPC
Nice troll. What in the hell makes you think that Linux on PowerPC will surpase OS X? Are you talking about servers or desktops?
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Windows XP Professional offers more in respect to manageability and security than GNU/Linux will ever do.
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