‘What Linux now needs’

Novell CEO and Linux evangelist Ron Hovsepian told the LinuxWorld believer’s conference that all they need to conquer the world was a few useable programs for the alternative operating system; too many Linxnauts ignore the fact that ”the application is what drives the final customer decision;” he said the multiple versions of Linux must be standardised so that programmers can develop reliable apps that work across the spectrum; with Windows, he noted, ”application availability is far and away their biggest advantage.”