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Linux Growth In The Workplace Slowing
BrainSurgeon writes "According to a Business Week article Linux growth numbers have slowed for the first time since SG Cowen & Co. began tracking it on their survey. The biggest reason for the slow down according is due to the hidden cost of consultants." From the article: "That doesn't mean overall Linux use is slowing. The survey only shows that a smaller number of companies not using Linux plan to try the software than in previous surveys. Most analysts expect Linux use to grow at the companies that have already rolled it out -- and do so at a healthy rate. And analysts say Linux is picking up steam outside North America, which the Cowen survey doesn't cover."
that open source software wasn't going to lock anybody in? Now it seems like a "We've spent too much to go back" kind of scenario.
Goddamit, Tux would not be wearing a suit! Makes him look gay. I know Taco probably thinks it's cute, but to those of us who fight the battle against the ass kissing, back-slapping, glad-handing, Big Bertha swinging, BMW driving, Hamptons vactioning, outsourcing, pro-actively lay-offing idiots in suspenders on a daily basis, it's just plain offensive.
Taco, it's is the MANAGERS who would USE liunx that would be wearing the suits, not Tux!
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
...being about con and insult, two favorite things of his.
That came to mind when I read this both for the consultants part and also for the fact that my intelligence has been insulted by an attempted con at trying to make me think Linux is ready to go anywhere near business desktops.
The same people who can't manage Windows, can barely use AOL, they're going to make work efficiently an OS which is the orgasmic manna for geeks firmly of the "difficult is beautiful" mindset? Yeah, right. Maybe the server department, but I don't think any of the middle aged women in my family, who've worked XP Pro, NT4, OS/2 Warp 3, DOS 6, DOS 5, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, on their company desktops are going to be remotely interested in another paradigm shifting without a clutch.
If I had to use Gnome or KDE at work all day, I'd want to strangle someone. If it was Red Hat or Fedora underneath, I would merely choke them to unconsciousness. If it was Debian, to a coma. If it was Gentoo, straight to the grave. BSD is right out.
Little did those who suffered in the early years of Unix ever realize that their kids would one day be masochists on a level undreamt of even by the Marquis de Sade and actually find Unix cool. "Waitaminute, you said DOS sucked because of text. Now you think Linux is 'da bomb'? Are you researching bombs now with the Internet?"
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Why doesn't the word "Macintosh" appear on this page? Oh wait, now it does.
They probably use VB6.
I see a lot of people who don't want to learn anything beyond the skills (the MCSE answers) that got them their job, while at the same time believing they know everything about everything that matters (anything they don't know doesn't matter).
I met a sysadmin who manages hundreds of systems and swears he'll never touch any software labeled as open source because Microsoft told him it's insecure.