[Sussex] News.. views and Barney McGrue's..

[Geoff Teale]

Chaps,

Especially for all those of you who are always telling me Linux on the 
desktop will never happen, and businesses will never use it because they 
can't get the tools.  Here are two especially nice little articles on 
the Register.  The first concerns the way large vendors are using the 
far east as a test bed for mass-adoption of Linux technology.  The 
second concerns the current Oracle / Peoplesoft takeover attempt, and 
how either way we end up with big players pushing for linux adoption. 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31359.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/31339.html

On the second story, I have to say, there seems to be two options in the 
future business apps market. Go with Windows and use software acquired 
and developed by Microsoft for everything (not necessarily a bad 
solution, but one which will require you to write a blank cheque every 
few years and send it to chairman Bill) or go with third parter vendors 
(who more and more are aggressively pushing Linux because it's success 
gives them protection from Microsoft's rampaging ways).  There are a lot 
of SME's out there who will listen to their contracted providers and 
plump for Microsoft, Great Plains, etc... and there are a lot of larger 
companies who have invested a lot in peoplesoft or OracleApps  and will 
go the other way.   

We live in interesting times...

-- 
GJT
gteale at cmedltd.com