[GRLUG] Linux Desktop White Paper

[Bob Kline]

On Nov 28, 2007 4:38 PM, Don Wood <dond at standalelumber.com> wrote:

> I received an offer for this free.
>
> Free White Paper
>
> Four Linux Desktops Tackle the Enterprise
> The year 2007 might be remembered as the year when Linux corporate
> desktops stood up to Windows Vista. Hewlett-Packard recently announced
> it is making large deals with Linux desktops and these orders might be a
> signal of an important shift in the market. For this review, the CRNTest
> Center evaluated offerings from the four leading Linux enterprise
> desktop alternatives: Linspire Five-O, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise
> Desktop, the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 and
> Xandros 4 Professional. This independent technology review of these four
> enterprise desktops demonstrates why Novell appears to be the most
> comprehensive alternative to Microsoft Windows.
>
>
>
> Does anyone else find it disturbing that they didn't include at least
> ubuntu, debian, or fedora?
>
>

Red Hat is in there. SuSe and Red Hat
represent corporate backing I'd guess.
Not clear about Linspire and Xandros
and why they qualify as "leading."

All that comes to mind is that companies
offering boxes want distributions that
come with a corporate seal of approval.
Someone to go after if something is wrong
and be able to demand that something be
done about it.

Ubuntu and Debian cost nothing, so they
don't come with a guarantee they work or
will be fixed or that anyone stands behind
them.  Never mind that they do work and
that people do fix things - you can't push
on anyone to do it on schedule.

     -Bob
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