I'll add my two cents.
Linux can be used nicely as a back-end server to run Samba, Apache or
Tomcat based web apps and probably other server apps.
I have played enough with the Linux desktop software and talked to many,
many customers and students and I don't see MOST people EVER going away
from Windows or some variant unless they are using the Linux box as a
term server front end or something else where it's simply a
browser-access box.
It could happen for the server side stuff, but not the client :-)
Then again. I could be fooled :-)
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message: 4
date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:59:35 -0600
from: "John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi and Linux
Raul Jager wrote:
More likely: a silent mayority.
Windows does not need to be running.
I'm really hard pressed to believe that a silent majority are willing
and
_ABLE_ to switch to Linux. Of the 10 or so 3rd party Windows
applications
that we depend upon, none have a Linux version, or any plans to provide
one.
Actually, I'm even having a hard time believing that a silent majority
actually want to. I suspect that the "silent majority" is to be found
outside of us tech people, and that they (like my mom) don't give two
hoots
if it's Linux, Windows, or Mac, as long as it just works, and is easy to
use.
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