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German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs

Posted by Soulskill on from the jahr-des-linux-auf-dem-desktop dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Linux proponents used to proclaim that the era of Linux on the desktop was just around the corner. That may never come to pass, but there are still occasional wins. For instance, a German insurance giant will be moving 10,000 employees to Linux-based desktop and laptop machines."

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  1. Re:Adaption... by lanc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, how many of the companytools are webbased? How is it relevant on what OS your firefox runs on? Linux may not win the desktop war - but windows still can lose it. By fading out into a browser-running-firmware. And then why pay for windows?
    The new era is the one of the cloud. Bring on the vaporware jokes.
    On the serverside it is very similar. ZFS needs some more features, taking over the role of the servicerunning OS, like browsers do on the client side ;)
    Sadly the OS will fade into being a firmware, not more.

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