Novell 'Drinking Their Own Champagne' 21
TheMMaster writes "According to Novell, they will be using their own flavour of Linux (SUSE) on the desktops of their 6000+ workers. While this was already known for quite some time, what wasn't quite so known was why and how they did it. Novell is moving from Microsoft to Linux and OpenOffice. Here's how it's being done."
champagne? (Score:1)
Sorry, Novell... (Score:1, Flamebait)
How does the Frank Zappa lyric go?
I can take about an hour on the Tower of Power, as long as I get a little golden shower...
Success stories? (Score:5, Insightful)
How about Extramadura? There are probably more Linux desktops in that operation than in this whole list. And we haven't been hearing about it since 1998.
Re:Success stories? (Score:1, Funny)
realworldlinux [netcraft.com]
linuxworldexpo [netcraft.com]
Re:Success stories? (Score:3, Informative)
Seems to me that people switch, are happy, and go back to their business. "Business has computers" isn't much of a story, the switch is.
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Evan
Beer! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Beer! (Score:1)
Yeah, but I've spent some time in Finland, and all I could find there was wimpy light ales. Better than most of the commercial American beers, I'll grant you, but nothing comparable to Guinness or Murphy's.
Of course, Linus may have moved to the US so that he could get better beer. Anyone know what his favorite brands are? Hmmm
Silicon Valley does have a few good brew pubs, as
Chicken or the Egg? (Score:5, Interesting)
Good. And they will no doubt run into interoperability problems that other ambitious migration projects have. Of course the big difference is Novell is a position to do something about it. They can commission groups of paid and volunteer programmers to fix what doesn't work, so that we can all benefit.
Maybe there's some ex-Microsoft employees out there that can pitch in. Computing may become fun again after all for the masses.
Re:NO ex-M$! (Score:2, Redundant)
If it came out that a M$ employee who worked with an Office program's file format were involved in OpenOffice.org, you can be sure that both Sun and OpenOffice would be keel-hauled - if not by the courts, then by the cost of massive litigation.
The MOVE (Score:2)
Re:The MOVE (Score:2, Informative)
Yuck (Score:2, Funny)
Novell , now a significant player? (Score:2)
nick
Hilarious (Score:1)
Linux is well known for offering high-level security for both servers and desktops, with the fewest security issues of any operating system.
I nearly fell off my seat. I swear I get atleast 5 security updates a week. I don't think these people have heard of OpenBSD.