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A CIO's View of Ubuntu
onehitwonder writes "Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company's computers. Here is CIO.com's initial writeup on Halamka's experiences; we discussed their followup article on SUSE. Now CIO is running a writeup on Halamka's take on Ubuntu and how it stacks up against Novell SUSE 10, RHEL, Fedora, XP, and Mac OS X, in a life-and-death business environment." For the impatient, here's Halamka's conclusion: "A balanced approach of Windows for the niche business application user, Macs for the graphic artists/researchers, SUSE for enterprise kiosks/thin clients, and Ubuntu for power users seems like the sweet spot for 2008."
Suse for thin clients. Hilarious.
...we call gaming.
God how I love denying requests to buy overpriced Mac hardware from Apple loonies like you and then revel in the look on your faces when you get the standard company laptop like everyone else...
Sorry clown, companies aren't interested in wasting money on platform fanboys. Businesses are for grownups to get work done.
Why bother with Windows when there is OS X? The Mac is not a "niche" platform for "graphic arts/multimedia". Get your heads out of the 1980s/1990s, people.
It's the most productive platform for anything, including your grandmother.
Windows is over. Its brief and lucrative (for some) flare of popularity was a result of other people's crimes, other people's choices, it's time to freakin' move on.
you had me at #!
Why do you write "MAC" instead of Mac? It's short for Macintosh, not MACINTOSH. You come across as a guy who wants to sound a lot smarter than he really is.