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How Can Linux Gain (Even) More Enterprise Acceptance? (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the embracing-and-extending-forever dept.

This is what we asked Jason Perlow. He wrote a Linux Magazine column for many years and now writes for ZDNet. The ZDNet blurb describes him as "a technologist with over two decades of experience integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies." Most recently, he worked for IBM, and for Unisys before that. So Jason knows plenty about Linux and its role in big-time enterprise computing. In this video, he talks about how Linux needs to take another step forward to gain even more enterprise traction in coming years.

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  1. Gaining traction should be easy by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    All he has to do is say "Look at Windows 8. Now look at Unity."

    Oh, wait. Bad example.

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    1. Re:Gaining traction should be easy by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would add "Don't like to have too much options? What about having just one, but wrong?"

    2. Re:Gaining traction should be easy by Nadaka · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its an ecosystem of software that allows group policy to determine what can and can not be done with a computer. Standardize antivirus? Want to spy on web traffic to prevent porn/games on company time? Want to bog down a developer box so that their IDE is so slow you have to wait for shit to pop up when you click, and you can waste 45 minutes building the application while norton dismembers your hard drive, and then cause a Permgen Space error half the time because the JVM isn't allowed to use more than 256megs of ram?

      Enterprise level support is the answer. I'm not the least bit frustrated that I waste 2 hours a day because I am trying to get shit done while my computer gags on a bag of cocks that it is forced on developer and marketing douchebag alike.

  2. Re:More acceptance in the Enterprise? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lose the beard. Find a shirt. Just sayin...

    Just not a red shirt. People wearing those don't seem to live long on the Enterprise.

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  3. Access by OpenSourced · · Score: 3, Funny

    In my experience, one thing blocking the adoption of Linux in corporate environments are MS-Access applications. Not only legacy ones, that could be moved, but the fact that there is nowhere to move them to. There is simply nothing that remotely approaches Access in the Linux world, and it's a pity.

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  4. Re:Does Linux need more acceptance? by chispito · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we just need something that dumbasses can use.

    Also, a touch more PR finesse might help.

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