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32 CHAPTER …. In This Chapter The problems of migrating to Linux in large organizations Business Desktop Linux: The Novell Linux Desktop The vexed question of whether this year is the year of Linux on the desktop has been with us for some time now. The potential of Linux as an enterprise desktop operating system is clear, but the difficulties for a large organization in making the move are also formidable. There have been some high-profile decisions to move to Linux desktops: one of SUSE s early coups in this area was the decision by the town of Schwaebisch Hall in Germany in 2002 to move to Linux desktops. That migration has now taken place. SUSE and IBM achieved a great deal of publicity the following year when the City of Munich made a similar decision in principle, despite a dramatic last-minute counter-offer from Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. The history of the Munich Linux move since the initial decision has not been all good news for IBM or for Novell, however; the city has decided to use a specially modified Debian distribution and has chosen to contract out the implementation and support to relatively small local companies. The time scale for the migration has also been put back relative to the original plans. The outcome of the Munich migration will be of great interest to other large organizations. There certainly is a growing interest, particularly in public sector organizations in Europe, in making this move, which is combined with a growing suspicion of proprietary file formats (for example the Norwegian government recently announced a policy that proprietary file formats are not to be used in government work). The release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 using as default the OASIS OpenDocument Format can only fuel this general trend. Other commercial Linux desktop systems Thin-client solutions NLD installation NLD special features The future of NLD
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