On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > > Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also > > done this? > > Completely eliminated Windows? Not many. > > Obviously it's possible to a small company off from Windows. For as long > as I've worked at GL we've had only one Windows install, a terminal > server. Most employees do all of their work in Linux. (But then we're > kinda the definition of an outlier.) > > Every Red Hat employee I've seen runs RHEL on their work machine. Novell > made a big announcement about getting rid of Windows, but I don't think > it actually happened. IBM made an announcement about moving a large > number of employees to Linux, but when you did the math it turned out to > be only a fraction (10% ?) of their workforce. > > Most of the success cases I've read about have actually been city > governments, or government projects. In all cases, they required a > significant commitment to building custom solutions. > > http://www.largo.com/department/index.php?fDD=24-0 > http://davelargo.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.canonical.com/content/andalusia-deploys-220000-ubuntu-desktops-schools-throughout-region > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4602325.stm > > <snip> Here was another pretty famous incident from the Ernie Ball corporation. http://www.google.com/search?q=ernie+ball+linux /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
