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Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'll-drink-to-that dept.

Laura writes "Novell says its newly released Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10(SLED) can replace Windows for the average office worker. But will enterprises embrace a widespread migration from Windows?" From the article: "The desktop market is a very mature market, and Microsoft has a very strong presence there, which makes it hard for customers to move off [...] However, Jeff Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Novell, said at the SLED 10 launch Thursday he is fairly confident that if enterprises have a chance to kick the tires of the new desktop OS, mass migration from Windows is soon to follow."

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  1. Re:Displacing MS is difficult by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please stop astroturfing every damn article with your conference rubbish. The point is made.

  2. I was foolish enough once... by FishWithAHammer · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...to think that you had a germane point in another thread with this crap.

    Stop the bloody astroturfing already. We get it.

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  3. Clueless by DogDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't speak for GM or Lowe's, but IBM is nowhere near migrating from Windows to *nix anything on the vast majority of their desktops. Just more FUD from the OSS crowd...

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  4. Re:Linux guys don't like to hear this, but ... by DogDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh I don't know, I think the lack of spyware, advare and viruses would be quite interesting to all of them. Of course, MacOs has this too, but that requires Mac hardware.

    You OSS trolls are *really* going to have to come up with some new material. It feels like you guys are really scaping the bottom of the barrel, here, looking for something, *anything* that would justify the masochism of using Linux on desktops It's not like you guys are limited to facts... that has never been an issue before. How about something more creative and relevant like "Linux: the choice of 30-year-old virgins."? Or "Linux: now with more unpronounceable applications!" Or, oh, I got it: "Why have a social life when you can spend time trying to get Linux to work?"

    Although, I'll give credit where credit is due: you guys finally gave up trying to convince people that it's easier than Windows 2000/XP. I thought that you guys were never going to quit with that one. That was just embarassing.

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