| Can Novell lift the Linux Desktop to the next level? |
Mar. 09, 2006
Columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols thinks he has found a pattern in Novell's pursuit of the enterprise desktop. For a while, Novell has produced great Linux desktops, like OpenSUSE, he writes. At the same time, though, Novell has insisted that for businesses, its only desktop interest was in thin-client-style worker-bee desktops.
Recently, things have changed, Vaughan-Nichols says.
Novell's new CTO, Jeff Jaffe, recently predicted that the Linux desktop is "about to take off," adding that "I think what we are about to see is adoption by the basic office worker."
However, saying it's a good idea isn't the same thing as saying you're going to put a product in people's hands, Vaughan-Nichols observes.
But now, with Novell's announcement of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop at CeBIT this week, things have really changed . . .
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Can Novell lift the Linux Desktop to the next level?
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