[NBLUG/talk] [Bull] Five Linux Desktops

Scott Doty scott at ponzo.net
Sat Oct 24 17:21:56 PDT 2009


On 10/23/2009 07:14 AM, John Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> Ah, OS Wars...

Indeed...a term increasingly in use, as op/ed'ed in the following Forbes
column...


  Battle Of The OS Titans


http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/22/google-microsoft-apple-technology-cio-network-novell.html?partner=technology_newsletter


Obquote:

Mass customization favors the flexible. The reason Ford ( F - news -
people ) has survived so long is not just because it pioneered a
production-line approach to auto manufacturing, but because it also
developed ways of allowing customers to pick the right vehicle--in the
right color--for their specific needs. Ford innovated around choice. In
the software world, the award for the most flexible operating system
would clearly go to Linux, the open-source product that is increasingly
taking a lead in corporate data centers and the emerging cloud, and now
has a foothold in the netbook market and is the basis for Google's
Android. Linux is so flexible that we have an online service that lets
IT staff literally build a customized and unique software environment to
run applications, and in the last couple of months they've created over
half a million of them.

 -Scott




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