Re(1): Two new alternatives for the enterprise desktop
Posted by: ggvrsn
on June 29, 2007 05:53 PM
Yes I know that what I ask is there and working for quite some time. I have been on linux deskop the same time as you have. Dont get me wrong, my desktops at home or office runs only Linux and have been able to do almost all the things i point out on them, but what I am getting at is that there is one vendor who has all the peices of the puzzle working.
Example: If I go with RHEL desktop, VPN, Lotus Notes and Evolution support is good, but I have to give up on Multimedia and Samba. Yes I know I can setup samba in 10 minutes, but my point being if it is a Enterprise class product, it has to work with as less tweaking as possible. Xandros has got this idea right.
The issue with Xandros is that as a desktop it is very good, but when it comes to running VPN from Apani or Nortel, or Lotus Notes from IBM (not the Wine, but Lotus Notes 7/8 Beta) it fails very badly. Its the same issue with Mandriva 2007.1
Yes Organisations end up being 1 or 2 vendor locked in as the big vendors make different deals, which are tranparent to us seeing from the outside. If you consider a huge organisation 2000+ employees, having Linux serves very well, but consider a 10000+ employees, things start to get a little out of hand to manage. I have seen 3 organisations with 100,000+ employees go with 1 product because it gave them a better solution, than use open standards.
If I had my way, I would defenitely go with open standards, but I am no CEO or CIO of any company, so until then, I have to accept the ideas and intentions of them.
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Re(1): Two new alternatives for the enterprise desktop
Posted by: ggvrsn on June 29, 2007 05:53 PMExample: If I go with RHEL desktop, VPN, Lotus Notes and Evolution support is good, but I have to give up on Multimedia and Samba. Yes I know I can setup samba in 10 minutes, but my point being if it is a Enterprise class product, it has to work with as less tweaking as possible. Xandros has got this idea right.
The issue with Xandros is that as a desktop it is very good, but when it comes to running VPN from Apani or Nortel, or Lotus Notes from IBM (not the Wine, but Lotus Notes 7/8 Beta) it fails very badly. Its the same issue with Mandriva 2007.1
Yes Organisations end up being 1 or 2 vendor locked in as the big vendors make different deals, which are tranparent to us seeing from the outside. If you consider a huge organisation 2000+ employees, having Linux serves very well, but consider a 10000+ employees, things start to get a little out of hand to manage. I have seen 3 organisations with 100,000+ employees go with 1 product because it gave them a better solution, than use open standards.
If I had my way, I would defenitely go with open standards, but I am no CEO or CIO of any company, so until then, I have to accept the ideas and intentions of them.
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