Faulty Paradigms for Business Week

Faulty Paradigms for Business Week

Posted Oct 25, 2005 17:00 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Faulty Paradigms for Business Week by drag
Parent article: Cold Realities For Novell (BusinessWeek)

" The way things stand is that Novell will either make Linux on the desktop a marketable item for big business, or they will die trying "

"EVERYBODY" will die trying.

When counting business records among Linux companies, the prvalent issue that always come to my mind is *blindness*.

Imagine 5-7 years from now. Typical midsize company, if nothing really serious towards desktop is done, will have most probabily Vista desktops and linux servers. Now i belive its no mistery to no one that Vista is partialy behind DRM protecting measures, and could be *totaly behind DRM* by means of automatic updates controled most positively by Microsoft. Then at the right moment they intruduce incompatibilitys, for *security reasons of course*!, and say that the Linux server are not up to their standards, even though they are better in security than Vista courterparts, and only Linux suppliers that make deals with Microsoft(for Microsoft advantage no doubt), will have a chance, and *DRM keys* to play with Vista Desktops.

Guess who will be the big winner ? (Dont mind OASIS formats)

So Linux companies that dont *SERIOUSLY* invest in desktop are stupidly blind, bullied already by Microsoft, or waiting to see if they could make the best deals!

I dont care for actual business records and fait divers like in this article. They are only drivel to make us sleep. What i do care is that Novell is in the right track, and Red Hat is falling behind because of their negligence of desktop. To me they all should be adviced to enter the right track, though the fight is going to be terrible,:
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