[Off topic] Re: Mac OS X

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> 
> >When it comes to the major players being able to get the job done,
> a
> >lot of major corporations are using Linux.  Is it easy to set up
> your
> >home printer? Nope, it is not.  Is it easy to use when you're
> keeping
> >track of multi-million dollars of transactions a day? Yes.  Who do
> >you think is going to get the support/ business?  Hint - NOT the
> guy
> >who can't set up his printer.
> >  
> >
> It's cool if Linux wants to chase the big corporate dollars over
> the 
> home consumer or small business. The operating system won't expand 
> beyond its IT-intensive niche and into the general (and extremely 
> lucrative) desktop market, but that's cool. Everyone has to make a
> decision.
> 
> I do agree with the thought that locking yourself into a particular
> file 
> format (such as Microsoft Word)  could spell disaster  in the far 
> distant future.
> 
> Ed

"Linux" isn't chasing the $$$. It's the major corporations that
implement Linux ie. IBM.  Example at link below
http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html 
Remember the last time IBM tried to get into desktops?  OS/2 ring a
bell?

For a rock solid desktop linux configuration to be implemented a
major corporation will need to make the decision to go forward with a
distribution that can go up against Windoze.  That's gonna take $$$. 
Which goes against the open source ideaology.  A good example is
Wal-Mart selling Lindows on it's cheaper PC's.  They haven't made a
dent trying to sell $399 computers w/ Monitor.  If Dell were able to
cut it's ties with M$ and implement a linux distro as an alternative
to it's current offerings.  That would also prove a worthy opponent. 
But M$ agreements with the major PC makers force them to put Windoze
on every computer they sell.  Call Dell, HP, or Toshiba and ask to
get an OEM computer with no OS installed.  They can not sell you an
OEM computer legally wthout Windoze pre-loaded. 

Norberto Quintanar
--http://www.geocities.com/nquintanar


 

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