Waldo Bastian on Kiosk and the Linux desktop (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

KDE.News interviews Waldo Bastian. "There are of course cost saving aspects but I think the most important reason for companies to go with KDE is that it puts the company back in control over their corporate desktops. With KDE your IT department gets new opportunities to help make your desktop workers more productive instead of spending all day fighting to prevent things from falling apart."

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Waldo Bastian on Kiosk and the Linux desktop (KDE.News)

Posted Aug 12, 2004 7:28 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

People following the Ximian/SUSE merge that's going on within Novell might like to look at the comments attached to this article.

Basically, it says that Novell is still thinking, and thus both KDE people (like Waldo), and GNOME people (like most of Ximian) are still active on their respective desktops.

Waldo Bastian on Kiosk and the Linux desktop (KDE.News)

Posted Aug 12, 2004 14:59 UTC (Thu) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]

Maybe they figured out that if they choose gnome|kde half of their
development staff would quit.

Does anyone think that Nat would all of a sudden start working on KDE, or
waldo, coolo and others would start learning gtk?

I find it quite amusing.

Derek

Hanging onto Ximian devs

Posted Aug 12, 2004 17:27 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Before I go further, I think I should point out that I'm a KDE user, who's never got on with GNOME; please keep my bias in mind.

That said, I suspect that if Novell decide to drop a desktop, they'll be able to hang on to a reasonable set of GNOME coders by porting Mono, the Exchange Connector, and other similar technologies to Qt/KDE; I'm not so sure that there's a way to hang onto the KDE staff.

Of course, Novell may well be intending to hang onto both desktops, and develop them equally; we've had no official word, and it's only speculation that they don't see a choice of environments as a selling point to corporations.

Hanging onto Ximian devs

Posted Aug 12, 2004 19:49 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Of course, Novell may well be intending to hang onto both desktops, and develop them equally;

Perhaps they plan to use Gnome for the US market and KDE for the European market.