Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors

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The desktop war is pretty much over, isn't it? Didn't everyone apart from Microsoft win - Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Apple, and customers?

Case study from my own small business:

About 36 months ago, we migrated away from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice and Firefox, running on what we had (a mix of Win2k and WinXP).

About 18 months ago, we migrated away from Windows clients to web clients for all our business apps (and, of course, the servers run Ubuntu.)

About 6 months ago, we ditched the email server in favour of a Google-based mail solution, because it gave us access anywhere, world-class reliability, and a mobile solution that worked on a huge number of devices down to my trust 4-year-old Nokia phone

Next step will, inevitably, to have cloud-based servers rather than wanting to own / manage / support bits of iron. At that point, I really don't care whether they run Ubuntu or not.


And, for the record, I'm writing this from a Mac Mini. Being a "technology-intensive" business, our new policy is that our staff can have "what computer they want." As I look around, Ubuntu desktop seems to be ahead (4), with Windows XP second (2), and MacOS third (1)...

... no-one in the office has chosen Vista.

And what applications have I got installed on the Mac:

- Camino (Firefox for MacOS)
- OpenOffice (platform independent)
- A GUI admin tool for MacOS called Navicat (roughly equivalent to MySQLFront for Windows, and I'm sure Linux versions exist.)

Posted by: MarkHarrison   Posted on: 03/26/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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