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[LUG] Linux on corporate PCs

 

Article from the Wall Street Journal (requires subscription)

Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops
More Businesses Adopt
Cost-Saving Software
For Some Workers' PCs
By ROBERT A. GUTH
March 13, 2007; Page B3

The Linux operating system, having made inroads into corporations'
backroom server computers, is showing hints of inching into a much
broader market: employees' personal computers.

The much-hyped notion that Linux would be viable software to run desktop
and notebook PCs seemed dead on arrival a few years ago. But the idea is
showing some new vital signs.

Chief information officers have experienced the cost savings that Linux
has brought to their server computers, which do narrow and repetitive
tasks such as data storage and serving up Web sites. Now some CIOs are
taking new interest in installing Linux on workers' PCs as well, for
certain narrow applications.......

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117374336173334742.html?mod=djemEMU for
full article


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Henry
Tue Mar 13 10:41:48 GMT 2007

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