I’m fond of saying that Linux has moved from t-shirts and holey jeans to business suits. Now, I have more proof than just my own eyes. The May 6 issue of InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020503S0009) includes the results of a survey of business users. Guess what? They love Linux.
I’m fond of saying that Linux has moved from t-shirts and holey jeans to business suits. Now, I have more proof than just my own eyes. The May 6 issue of InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020503S0009) includes the results of a survey of business users. Guess what? They love Linux.
Of businesses running Linux sites, a whopping 84 percent were very happy with Linux and 15 percent were OK with it. A mere 1 percent didn’t like their Linux deployment. Folks, you can’t get that many people to agree that Mom and apple pie are good things.
Now, what they’re not so crazy about is support. Free support doesn’t cut it. Yes, I know most of you reading this column can code a device driver with your teeth and think man pages are better reading than the latest Tom Clancy novel, but there aren’t enough folks like you out there to keep the cubicles of companies filled up.
Unfortunately, the survey showed that they’re not all that crazy about the support they get when they pay for it either. Over half of the survey’s respondents (57 percent) were only somewhat satisfied. That’s not good enough.
This makes me think that there’s still room for companies that provide support for Linux (like Linuxcare before they branched into Linux development), and that Caldera’s announcement that it will provide support for all major Linux distributions was a good move. In…
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