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[Chris Rowson <christopherrowson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ubuntu and OSS are awesome. No doubt about that.

But they're not the be all and end all.

If you're an Windows-centric organisation with thousands of desktops and
hundreds of servers, and you're running hundreds of legacy Windows
applications, you're not going to move across to a technology that does not
and will not interoperate with Windows technologies unless you're starting
from scratch. Period.

So while it might be easy enough to move infrastructures numbering hundreds
of machines with tens of applications en mass, I don't see bigger
enterprising doing so.

Most enterprises aren't interested in evangelism or the ethics of freedom,
they're interested in increasing productivity, efficiency and decreasing
costs. If we can make it easier for them to migrate bit-by-bit by giving
them access to software which interoperates with the stuff they've already
invested in then we should do so.

Look at the Enterprise leader Red Hat. Do they ignore Windows? Certainly
not.

Chris


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  by way of example, this is something I was messing with recently to bring
> an enterprise application to the desktop
>
> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2012/10/openerp-and-ubuntu-unity-desktop-integration/
>
> if we can do a heap of these kind of polishing and integration tasks that
> would be amazing. If various desktop and web based business applications
> could be themed so that they look like they belong on the Ubuntu desktop
> and integrate with the HUD, notifications, launcher actions etc. that would
> be a really compelling story that Ubuntu is the best desktop to run
> enterprise applications on. I am thinking of a collection of modules and
> themes that you can install on your locally served web applications. Maybe
> one for the Joomla admin interface, or wordpress admin pages, stuff for
> osticket etc.
>
> Alan.
>
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