Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2003 12:04 AM
Sun's desktop is a thinclient buisness computer that will be used for little more than editing documents, sending e-mail and accessing databases. It is perfectly suited for this. Look to see more hardware issues being resolved by next year when projects that implement ZeroConf, end to end USB device detection and configuration and application/device integration will be matured.
Things take time and Linux on the desktop is only about 8 (Gnome being only 7) year old which is short time for the distance it has travled. It is basicly playing catchup right now but by 2005 should be surpassing propriatary desktops in certaint areas. The one great thing about the open source desktops is that 3rd party applications can be fully integrated. Though this has so far not been the case because the third parties were taking a look and see approch to Linux adoption, it looks like they are starting to come around. IBM already integrates websphere and DB2 with Linux, Novell will be integrating their entire line of products with the Gnome desktop and Sun looks like it is working to integrate Java into the Linux desktop. This is evidenced by both Madhatter and the fact that Java apps now can pick up and emulate GTK+ themes.
Time will tell but from my point of view it all looks good.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2003 12:04 AMThings take time and Linux on the desktop is only about 8 (Gnome being only 7) year old which is short time for the distance it has travled. It is basicly playing catchup right now but by 2005 should be surpassing propriatary desktops in certaint areas. The one great thing about the open source desktops is that 3rd party applications can be fully integrated. Though this has so far not been the case because the third parties were taking a look and see approch to Linux adoption, it looks like they are starting to come around. IBM already integrates websphere and DB2 with Linux, Novell will be integrating their entire line of products with the Gnome desktop and Sun looks like it is working to integrate Java into the Linux desktop. This is evidenced by both Madhatter and the fact that Java apps now can pick up and emulate GTK+ themes.
Time will tell but from my point of view it all looks good.
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