<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2007 4:38 PM, Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dond@standalelumber.com">dond@standalelumber.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I received an offer for this free.<br><br>Free White Paper<br><br>Four Linux Desktops Tackle the Enterprise<br>The year 2007 might be remembered as the year when Linux corporate<br>desktops stood up to Windows Vista. Hewlett-Packard recently announced
<br>it is making large deals with Linux desktops and these orders might be a<br>signal of an important shift in the market. For this review, the CRNTest<br>Center evaluated offerings from the four leading Linux enterprise
<br>desktop alternatives: Linspire Five-O, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise<br>Desktop, the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 and<br>Xandros 4 Professional. This independent technology review of these four<br>
enterprise desktops demonstrates why Novell appears to be the most<br>comprehensive alternative to Microsoft Windows.<br><br><br><br>Does anyone else find it disturbing that they didn't include at least<br>ubuntu, debian, or fedora?
<br><br> </blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div>Red Hat is in there. SuSe and Red Hat<br>represent corporate backing I'd guess.<br>Not clear about Linspire and Xandros<br>and why they qualify as "leading."<br><br>All that comes to mind is that companies
<br>offering boxes want distributions that <br>come with a corporate seal of approval.<br>Someone to go after if something is wrong<br>and be able to demand that something be<br>done about it. <br><br>Ubuntu and Debian cost nothing, so they
<br>don't come with a guarantee they work or<br>will be fixed or that anyone stands behind<br>them. Never mind that they do work and<br>that people do fix things - you can't push<br>on anyone to do it on schedule.
<br><br> -Bob<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><br>