There seems to be plenty of good, stable, free linux distributions available these days. Even SUSE is to be open sourced. And each school will need at least one person maintaing the computers no matter what they run. So, why would Indiana chose to pay for Linspire?
A business could buy Windows based email hosting for their entire company (with good spam filters too). Linux solutions are even cheaper.
Now, I have seen businesses use the shared documents features of Outlook for company wide documents. But at that point, these businesses have their own server and don't need any outside offering.
Basically, it seems that small businesses will save every penny they can and skip this offering while large businesses already have their own solution.
KDE seems to bring out a new release every 6 months or so. GNOME will probably rev before 2006. We'll probably even have a 2.8 kernel by then too. Linux could be poised to wipe out a lot of Windows desktops by then.
It just seems to me that the free software community will together produce a lot more software, window manager features, and application integration in 2 to 2.5 years than Microsoft will with Longhorn.
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There seems to be plenty of good, stable, free linux distributions available these days. Even SUSE is to be open sourced. And each school will need at least one person maintaing the computers no matter what they run. So, why would Indiana chose to pay for Linspire?
I'm really curious. Did I miss something?
Because there are not enough desktop clock applets in the world. And the glyphs are pretty!
Who wants to wait til 2038 to fix time keeping standards anyway?
Hamster didn't know it was going to happen. That worm uncovered some great bugs in the early days.
Food run anyone?
A business could buy Windows based email hosting for their entire company (with good spam filters too). Linux solutions are even cheaper.
Now, I have seen businesses use the shared documents features of Outlook for company wide documents. But at that point, these businesses have their own server and don't need any outside offering.
Basically, it seems that small businesses will save every penny they can and skip this offering while large businesses already have their own solution.
KDE seems to bring out a new release every 6 months or so. GNOME will probably rev before 2006. We'll probably even have a 2.8 kernel by then too. Linux could be poised to wipe out a lot of Windows desktops by then.
It just seems to me that the free software community will together produce a lot more software, window manager features, and application integration in 2 to 2.5 years than Microsoft will with Longhorn.