Study Finds Linux 'Ready For Prime-time'

An anonymous reader tipped us to a Techworld article proclaiming Linux as the next big thing ... again. A study of IT directors, VPs and CIOs has concluded that within five years the open-source OS will be running more than half of all important business applications. From the article: "In short, open source, especially Linux, is being legitimized by the major enterprise vendors, and user executives are more than happy to believe them ... Microsoft's thawing toward Linux is now easier to understand when faced with such data - even as Windows continues to grow as the other main server platform of choice."

cash cow?

[polar red]

"most large vendors remain tied to legacy cash-cow operating systems"
I wonder who they mean by cash-cow OS?

Re:cash cow?

[aussie_a]

Apple?

Re:It's happening - slowly

[HvitRavn]

I thought the "year of Windows" was 1995 :)

Re:Propaganda

[Anonymous Coward]

We have over 1000 employees and 7000 linux boxes, 1200 of which are workstations, and 4 admins.

Wow... Man... Your TCO is way over Windows network's. In a pure Microsoft environment you wouldn't need such a crap load of computers, just 1000 workstations, one server and 100-200 MCSEs.

Fast.

[SeaFox]

Wow, that didn't take long! [slashdot.org]

Open source software is old news

[slashthedot]

I predict 2007 will be big for open source hardware.

Re:That's a bunch of crap.

[Frozen Void]

Maybe in a paralell universe where everyone compiles kernels for breakfast and writes their own drivers.

Re:Not true until

[richie2000]

Linux gets a pool of lawyers and marketers. ... then dump piranhas and a couple of alligators in the pool.

There's no way the pool guy is going to clean out those bones from the bottom of a pool full of sharks, piranhas and alligators.

Re:Legitimate at last

[PopeRatzo]

You had to go there, didn't you. You had to bring up Bush and the myth that the war in Iraq is "lost" and was a "bad idea". You can't just leave well enough alone and talk about kernels and bandwidth and C++ and stuff, but you had to go and start pointing fingers just because a guy makes ONE LITTLE MISTAKE and invades the wrong country. Iraq/Iran, I mean, they're only ONE LETTER APART. So get ready to be modded down by some REAL AMERICANS who aren't quite so nitpicky. Not when Bush is doing such a great job, President-wise.

Re:Propaganda

[Anonymous Coward]

One server? Now we all know you're lying. Ever seen Microsofts own recomended configuration for even a small Windows network?

Re:Selfserving Article

[Splab]

That is not exactly true.

I reeeaaaally want to find the idiot who designed the way tabs work in Visual Studio over at microsoft and give him a good beating.

Re:Selfserving Article

[slashbob22]

By chair-man, do you mean Steve Ballmer?

Re:Selfserving Article

[Pad-Lok]

Judge Dredd disagrees with you.

In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

2007 will be the year linux makes the definitive leap to the desktop! Just like in 2006, 2005, 2004, ...

If I had a dollar...

[Conor Turton]

If I had a dollar for every article I'd read proclaiming Linux to be ready for primetime, Linux will beat Windows, this is the year of the Linux desktop, I'd be a very rich man.

OTOH, if I'd had a million dollars for everytime it became true, I'd be living under a bridge feasting out of the bins behind the restaurant.

Re:Legitimate at last

[Sponge Bath]

President-wise

PopeRatzo discovers the oxymoron.