| Interview: Bart Decrem -- Leveraging desktop Linux [Linux and Main] |
Apr. 23, 2002
Linux and Main features an in-depth interview with Bart Decrem, ex-Eazel, now-Hancom employee about the strength of desktop Linux, compelling events spurring on migration to Linux including the Microsoft trial, and Linux's opportunities in countries which have strong 'anti-American' sentiments . . .
" . . . You see every government in the world commissioning studies on where it makes sense to deploy open source, whether it be the United States, or Europe, or anywhere. The second thing you see is in some places actual legislation passed, where people say first you must look at open source alternatives, and then if you're going to buy commercial software you have to get special approval. That's the extreme case of Brazil, but there are a couple of other places, too. And then third what I think you're going to see is more situations like Korea, where in our case the government bought 120,000 bundles of OS and desktop, and they paid us. And so now people are deploying these things throughout training centers; usually they're second-boot systems, at least in our case in the first phase, where they keep running Windows but they're also installing desktop Linux. The second phase starts for us in a couple of months, and you're going to start seeing some Linux-only desktops. So whether it's the City of Largo in the U.S., or the government of Korea, or the City of Beijing in China, those are the initial business opportunities . . . "
" . . . I think it's a great month and a great quarter for Linux on the desktop. I think StarOffice is great news for us; I think CodeWeavers is great news for us; I think Mozilla 1.0 is the biggest news for all of us; and Xandros, Licoris, Lindows -- those are all very positive developments. And then KDE3, and GNOME2 is coming out next month also. It's kind of like everywhere you look on the desktop, it's just a great season."
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