Hi Anand, Why dont we do this debate in next meet.
Cheers Debendro On 7/1/07, Anand Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the discussion would add value by debating on yet another > dimension: > > I think we have had ENOUGH of this vs that OS wars. Migration / > adoption of "this or that" Operating System question is shortly going > to be irrelevant at many a places for a variety of "valid reasons". > However, what is going to be the deciding line, in most "rational > thinking" places, is the applications which most end users are going > to use. > > In so far as adoption by Corporates are concerned, the two most > influencing category of applications are 1. Office suites and 2. ERP. > Let us analyse this adoption/migration debate in the following light: > > 1. Office Suite: Can we discuss OpenOffice vs MS Office Adoption / > Migration instead of Windows vs Linux, irrespective of the underlying > OS? What are the compelling offerings in OpenOffice that will make > people move over from MS Office? With the war on suites now shifting > to the File Standard Formats, some of the issues we generally discuss > are yet again irrelevant. In fact it is the proprietary marriage of > Office-suite with Groupware and Collaboration, in form of Microsoft > Sharepoint Portal, that is forcing most Corporates to continue with > Microsoft Office, than adopting OpenOffice, which is good enough for > most users. Do we have an answer to Sharepoint Portal Server? In my > opinion, Plone makes a case, but to achieve such tight integration as > Sharepoint Portal, we need a proactive community effort. I am still > looking at one-easy-way to create and deploy Forms based applications, > of course that they should comply to XForms standards. Another viable > alternative to Plone has been Alfresco. See > http://www.webtekconcepts.com/2007/01/17/alfresco-vs-sharepoint/ and > http://www.protocol16.com/2007/05/28/alfresco-vs-sharepoint-1-of-4/ > for more details. > > It is not just plain OpenOffice vs MS Office issue. It is about > Corporate Applications getting locked up for lloonnnng times and in > turn raising a much more complex issue of migration!!! > > 2. ERP: Though many an established ERP solutions in the market are > known to be available on Linux as well. But how many of these ERP > Consultants talk about ERP on top of Linux? How many of these reputed > ERP offerings have their application clients [Rich Client] available > on Linux? > > We need to take the "Windows vs Linux" debate to cover newer dimensions. > > > Anand Shankar > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
