Ten Things Linux Needs to Make it Big(ger) in the Enterprise

saipothuri · 10-11-2006, 05:57 PM

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,120...=193711,00.asp

jack// ani · 10-11-2006, 06:49 PM

nice reading..

JGuru · 11-11-2006, 12:20 AM

I read that!! Now Oracle has it's own Linux. Surely they know how to market it!!
RHEL is doing pretty good. Ubuntu is slowly catching up in the Server market.

tuxfan · 11-11-2006, 12:23 PM

For a mass-acceptance, Linux needs to do two things:

Make software installation really easy. You can't expect people to compile and install
Better hardware support. To hell with whether the hardware drivers are open source or not!! If they are available and manufacturer permits free distribution, just include it! (Mr. Stallman, are you listening? ) Or at least convince manufacturers to offer it for download from their sites and include in their package CDs. If people have to keep searching for the right drivers, they will rather install pirated Windows and get going! People select hardware for its functioning and not availability of drivers! Although Samsung has recently started shipping Linux drivers with its printers and also sports a tux in their ads

Main thing for most people is to do their work. They don't care about those licensing issues and freedom theories!!

JGuru · 11-11-2006, 01:02 PM

@Tuxfan, slight correction in your post!! I think you wanted to convey this message.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuxfan

1. Make software installation really easy. You can't expect people to compile and install.

I also fully agree with you.

tuxfan · 11-11-2006, 01:13 PM

JGuru, thanks for correction

thats what I meant actually. I will edit the post

GNUrag · 11-11-2006, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JGuru

I read that!! Now Oracle has it's own Linux. Surely they know how to market it!!

Bah!! Its a CentOS ripoff..

JGuru · 11-11-2006, 04:03 PM

@Tuxfan, You are welcome

. I always double-check my post to make sure there are no errors!!
@GNUrag, Oracle's CEO Ellison has clearly stated that they don't want to write Linux
from ground-up!! They will use the Source code from mutiple Sources, so that they
can give their Enterprise customers Linux support.

GNUrag · 11-11-2006, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JGuru

@GNUrag, Oracle's CEO Ellison has clearly stated that they don't want to write Linux
from ground-up!! They will use the Source code from mutiple Sources, so that they
can give their Enterprise customers Linux support.

They're planning a rip off of CentOS alone... There is no such thing as multiple sources.. I trust my sources

praka123 · 11-11-2006, 06:34 PM

oracle linux seems to be too buggy as although its seems a cent os rip.

Quote:

Johnny Hughes, a CentOS community member who is now testing the free version of Oracle's Enterprise Linux, told LinuxPlanet that the software is "poorly documented, extremely buggy, and of questionable security hardening."

http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/blog/Linux