- Linux Moves in on the Desktop
- Posted by Sinister Midget on February 14th, 2004
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../b3871118mz063
http://tinyurl.com/yr5te
The doctors at Capital Cardiology Associates, with seven offices in
New York and Massachusetts, pride themselves on latching on to the
latest medical gizmos. But now they're pioneering in a different tech
realm: computers. Employees at the 160-person company have traded in
PCs running Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) Windows for
machines using the up-and-coming Linux (news - web sites) operating
system.
It spent more than $400,000 on a complete tech upgrade, but its
president, Dr. Augustin DeLago, believes the investment will pay off
handsomely over time in better security for patients' records and
easier management of technology. "We're a small company, but I think
we're out ahead on something," says Dr. DeLago.
Indeed, this could be the start of something big. After a long
gestation period -- and against all odds -- Linux is finally gaining
a toehold in Microsoft's backyard, office desktop computing. Market
researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market
share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s
(NasdaqNM:AAPL - News) Macintosh (news - web sites) software. And the
researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007. That's
still tiny compared with Microsoft's 94% share. But it's clear now
that Linux is becoming a viable alternative to Windows on desktop and
laptop PCs for companies willing to put up with the trouble of
switching.
Yes, ProudWindwoesLuser, I'm crowing. News for linux keeps getting
better, while news for $BORG keeps coming in as increasingly more
dismal!
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that CTRL-ALT-DEL is handled by the BIOS.
- Posted by Ayame Morgin on February 15th, 2004
Sinister Midget wrote:
Ok, you can write from experience on this question. Just how "big" is a
midget's toe?
- Posted by S.Heenan on February 15th, 2004
Sinister Midget wrote:
Like those 15,000 Suse desktops in Munich ? Like the 2% of 300,000,000 which
Linonut rounds to 5,000,000 ? Or more like the 500,000,000 desktops in
China Terry Porter spoke of ?
- Posted by Christene Subhah on February 15th, 2004
Sinister Midget wrote:
Ok, you can write from experience on this question. Just how "big" is a
midget's toe?
- Posted by GreyCloud on February 15th, 2004
Ayame Morgin wrote:
Big enough to irritate Sir Bill and his crusty side kick sweaty balmer.
- Posted by Mark Kent on February 16th, 2004
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I must be missing something here, but I make 2% of 300M 6M.
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| Mark Kent -- Take out the ham to mail me. |
You shall be rewarded for a dastardly deed.
- Posted by Kyle Fox on February 16th, 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:00:22 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
mysql> SELECT ( (300000000/100)*2 );
+-----------------------+
| ( (300000000/100)*2 ) |
+-----------------------+
| 6000000.00 |
+-----------------------+
Yeah...
- Kay
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