I'm much more bullish on them this year than I was a year ago. They are making some very strong, bold, and decisive moves to get themselves back on track. 2006 is going to be very interesting. |
If I had a mixed environment, I would wait and see the effort it takes to deploy Active Directory and then see if Active Directory or NDS is best for my environment, ... Without redirect, users will have to choose. |
If I had a mixed environment, I would wait and see the effort it takes to deploy Active Directory and then see if Active Directory or NDS is best for my environment. Without redirect, users will have to choose. |
If you do not know what is on your network, if you cannot at least estimate the hourly, monthly or yearly cost of downtime, if you do not know how long it takes to recover from a security outage, if you cannot answer questions about the extent of your company's license compliance, then you cannot truly evaluate whether Linux , Windows or Unix is right for your business. |
If you don't have those estimates, how do you do a TCO? That's scary, |
If you don't have those estimates, how do you do a TCO? That's scary. |
If you get the kids young, they are less likely to defect to Apple. |
If you looked at the stock market last year, for the first three quarters the market was down and it made it all up in the fourth quarter, |
It brings us to the basic question of usability vs. security, |
It brings us to the basic question of usability vs. security. |
It's a communist country, and that will come into play at some point. It will be interesting to see how politics and business mix as these firms keep pouring money into China. |
It's a different, more dangerous world. Technology is more sophisticated, but so are the software pirates. Consumers or businesses that deploy counterfeit software put their PCs and networks at peril for encountering tampered code, viruses and even credit card theft. In the end, the consumer and the corporation may suffer just as much, if not more, harm than the software vendors. |
It's better to fix the glitches before the release than after. |
Like it or not, some people will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into this. In theory we would all get hands-on training sessions, but what's more likely to happen is you'll be lucky if you even get a half-day session. |
Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day. |