Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Dzubeck on the year ahead: What?s hot for 2007
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>| 2006 saw the long-awaited arrival of Windows Vista from
>| Microsoft. This year corporations get to kick the new
>| operating system's tires. Although Microsoft never has had
>| any serious competition on the desktop, times have changed
>| and Linux is poised to compete head-to-head with Vista.
>| Because corporations now have the chance to evaluate a
>| desktop upgrade, it's time to compare open alternatives to
>| a proprietary desktop operating environment
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> http://www.linuxworld.com/columnists/2007/010307-dzubeck-wha
> ts-hot-for-2007.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
> http://tinyurl.com/ynxcnp
This is good news. It seems consistent with others in IT I
have spoken with. I find these statements rather
interesting:
| Looking even a year ahead into the network future can be a
| daunting task. For example, three years ago at the World
| Economic Forum?s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Bill
| Gates, then Microsoft?s chairman, boldly predicted the
| problem of spam on the Internet would be solved by 2006.
|
| Recent studies, however, indicate worldwide spam traffic
| doubled in 2006 and now accounts for nine of 10 e-mail
| messages sent on the Internet.
People are looking for more secure solutions than current
Windows desktops provide. There is less of a tendency for web
based E-mail to pump out spam than client based E-mail,
particularly Windows.
There is more push to going to web based services, even if it
is a company's set of intranet servers. One only needs to
update the servers, making the client OS less significant.
Essentially client becomes nothing more than a smart terminal.
Web based storage gets rid of concern of user losing files
through corruption or client system failures.
In such case, those IT specialists familiar with the security
of Unix will prefer Linux based clients. One does not need
gigbyte memory or a large hard drive, or even a hard drive
with sufficient non-volatile RAM. Smaller, less powerful CPU
can power a browser.
Corporate leaders will also favour it as it is a lower cost
solution than proprietary. However, one still has the option
to go fat client with apps like Open Office if they desire.
Article indicating more emphasis on central computing centers
seems apt.
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