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A Small Business Guide to Linux Desktop Software
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| While you can still download many free
| versions of Linux online, for convenience
| sake, several vendors offer user-friendly
| versions and charge a fee for support. Red Hat
| and Novell are the primary desktop Linux
| vendors, accounting for nearly 95 percent of
| the operating system revenue in 2008,
| according to IDC. Further, these two companies
| claimed 90 percent of worldwide Linux
| subscribers during 2008.
|
| âThe Linux desktop has developed very rapidly
| over the past few years,â said Nick Carr,
| marketing director of Red Hat. âFrom a
| technology viewpoint the Linux desktop is well
| developed, feature rich and mature. It is low
| cost, secure and manageable, and itâs very
| well suited to a wide range of customer
| deployments.â
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http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/3856831
Recent:
A Linux answer to Windows SBS: ClearOS
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| Linux is used as a server all the time.
| From branch-offices using Linux and Samba
| to Google running, well everything, on
| Linux, it's the operating system for choice
| for most businesses. Except that is, for
| small offices. There, Microsoft's SBS
| (Small Business Server) is the server of
| choice. The Clear Foundation wants to
| change that with their ClearOS 5.1 small
| business server distribution.
|
| Why has Linux not done well here? It's an
| odd story. In some ways, Linux has
| historically done quite well for small
| businesses. Back in the late 1990s, the
| Cobalt appliance line did quite well in the
| market. Sun, in one of their less than
| bright moments, however, bought Cobalt for
| about $2 billion in 2000. By neglect, Sun
| had killed off Cobalt, and small business
| server Linux, by 2004.
|
| [...]
|
| Note, we didn't say 'Linux' server.
| ClearOS, formerly known as ClarkConnect,
| doesn't ask for its users to become expert
| Linux administrators. Indeed, its interface
| hides all of Linux's complexity away. While
| it's built solidly on Linux and other open-
| source programs, a non-technical user could
| use ClearOS and never know what was his
| server's hood.
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http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/87803/a-linux-answer-windows-sbs-clearos
Related:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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