Comments on: FLOOD of FUD http://mrpogson.com/2009/09/25/flodd-of-fud/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/2009/09/25/flodd-of-fud/comment-page-1/#comment-4822 Robert Pogson Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:49:49 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=734#comment-4822 IBM supplies what the customer wants. Many businesses <strong>are</strong> asking for more manageable and less costly desktops. IBM, Red Hat and Novell are supplying them with thin clients. While that is unusual for home users/small business it is seen as necessary in large deployments, some with thousands of PCs. That other OS has no place there. It is not efficient as a terminal server because there is no shared memory and it reuiqres twice as many servers to do the job. GNU/Linux thrirve as a teminal server since any desktop system + openSSH or NX can do the job very well. Businesses also want virtual desktops so that individual users can dial into that other OS or GNU/Linux transparently. That is not a pure solution but it is very practical and reduces dependence on that other OS and more importanatly reduces M$'s cash flow. Money is the source of their power and IBM and others are out-flanking M$. The one hard drive/one licence per seat model is shrinking. The OEMs will be able to make money selling hardware with GNU/Linux but it is not as easy. M$ was giving them nearly hald the rip-off. With GNU/Linux there is none of that but with that other OS as M$ is forced to compete on price the rip-off is being reduced anyway. Christmas will be fun. To move large volumes, prices must be cut further. The more expensive thin notebooks will not outsell the GNU/Linux netbooks. This will dampen the adoption of "7" which can only flourish on consumer machines. ARM will enter mainstream computing. Chuckle. IBM supplies what the customer wants. Many businesses are asking for more manageable and less costly desktops. IBM, Red Hat and Novell are supplying them with thin clients. While that is unusual for home users/small business it is seen as necessary in large deployments, some with thousands of PCs. That other OS has no place there. It is not efficient as a terminal server because there is no shared memory and it reuiqres twice as many servers to do the job. GNU/Linux thrirve as a teminal server since any desktop system + openSSH or NX can do the job very well. Businesses also want virtual desktops so that individual users can dial into that other OS or GNU/Linux transparently. That is not a pure solution but it is very practical and reduces dependence on that other OS and more importanatly reduces M$’s cash flow. Money is the source of their power and IBM and others are out-flanking M$. The one hard drive/one licence per seat model is shrinking. The OEMs will be able to make money selling hardware with GNU/Linux but it is not as easy. M$ was giving them nearly hald the rip-off. With GNU/Linux there is none of that but with that other OS as M$ is forced to compete on price the rip-off is being reduced anyway.

Christmas will be fun. To move large volumes, prices must be cut further. The more expensive thin notebooks will not outsell the GNU/Linux netbooks. This will dampen the adoption of “7″ which can only flourish on consumer machines. ARM will enter mainstream computing. Chuckle.

]]> By: Richard Chapman http://mrpogson.com/2009/09/25/flodd-of-fud/comment-page-1/#comment-4815 Richard Chapman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:35:59 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=734#comment-4815 I was surprised by Bob Sutor's comment. Not that he would have that sentiment but that he would share it with so many people. There is no denying IBM's contribution to the Linux kernel. And more members in the community should understand that IBM's focus is not on the desktop. But many of us in the community are busting our collective asses trying to overcome the notion embedded in the minds of the populous that Microsoft is the PC. If IBM doesn't want to help with that, fine, no problem, I understand. They have a business to run. So please, IBM, run your business but don's stomp all over us while we try to do OUR business, it's hard enough as it is. I was surprised by Bob Sutor’s comment. Not that he would have that sentiment but that he would share it with so many people. There is no denying IBM’s contribution to the Linux kernel. And more members in the community should understand that IBM’s focus is not on the desktop. But many of us in the community are busting our collective asses trying to overcome the notion embedded in the minds of the populous that Microsoft is the PC. If IBM doesn’t want to help with that, fine, no problem, I understand. They have a business to run. So please, IBM, run your business but don’s stomp all over us while we try to do OUR business, it’s hard enough as it is.

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