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Linux Is Going Nowhere At The Desktop: Intel|
- By Sunil Kumar, Jun 06, 2005 1604 hrs IST
- Tags : Intel
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The Intel Innovation Meet, which was held at Renaissance in Mumbai, highlighted various aspects of Intel's growth strategy for the future and its plans for emerging markets and India.
Elaborating on the significance of the 40-year anniversary of Moore's Law, Anand Chandrashekhar, vice president of Intel said that Moore's law had permeated every walk of our life.
According to him, consistent IT challenges would lead to business process innovation. Since data volume grows 2x every 12-18 months, the industry had reached a strategic inflection point. With flat IT budgets, he stressed that what the industry needed is to deliver the services on a consistent level. He felt that understanding differing market segments and defining key elements of the platform are important.
Speaking about Open Source for enterprises, Chandrashekhar said, "We would like all operating systems to run and be available on our platform. While Linux is going good at the back end, at the client side, it is going nowhere."
He also revealed plans to establish a platform definition center in Bangalore that would define potential new computing platforms and technologies specifically for India and South Asia.
In the subsequent session, Gerry Greeve, vice president, sales and marketing group, Intel spoke at length about Asia's progress towards a digital continent. According to him, Asia was the number 1 billings region and considering that 45% of the population was less than 25 years old, new industry leaders would emerge from this part of the world.
A converged technology design and manufacturing centre was the order of the day. He revealed 10-point Asia wide initiatives for growth, some of which were computer labs being put in every high school in India and Intel cooperating with various local governments to aid in various community initiatives.
On day two, in the Kofee with Ketan session, the technorati had a field day. Ketan Sampat, president of Intel India elaborated on Intel's growth plans for the future. According to him, affordability was a definite issue, and subsequently the whole paradigm would change in the Indian market. Intel capital had suffered a boom and then a gradual downturn.
Intel India in Bangalore had moved from a base of 10 engineers to 2000 engineers with utilities developing next generation Centrino microprocessors for enterprise computing. Apart from the US and Israel, development of advanced microprocessors would be done in the development facility at Bangalore.
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by James Caswell on Jun 09, 2005 01:59 AMI run Linux for all important computing tasks on my home PC. This is especially so for accessing the Internet. At home I have relegated all Microsoft operating systems to the task of running games and the Microsoft Update Service. I find the Linux desktop to be just as easy to use and any Windows desktop. I
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by Somnath on Jun 08, 2005 10:37 PMI believe Linux is slowly gaining acceptance. It is no doubt good. Its problems lies in not having too many developers using 4GL development tools like Visual basic, Delphi or PowerBuilder to develop applications because you dont have as good 4GLs on Linux. Linux is lagging serious business community participation due to this. However, as soon as high quality 4GL development tools come into the market on and for Linux at affordable prices I am sure serious development on Linux platform will begin like anything. Currently most applications that are available on Linux are not on a large scale (I know many of you will put your voices against this - but isnt it true?) i.e. automating complicated business tasks for medium range businesses who currently are the chunk of MS users. It is still costly and time consuming to develop Linux based general client/server applications that are used in most business establishments on a daily basis. When these development tools will be available on Linux I can guanrantee everybody the most fantastic of marketing wars will erupt between Microsoft and the Linux community. Folks the war is still being prepared for by both the parties. The real thing is still not here. Will take a few years from now. But it is sure to happen. For the time being MS is ahead it seems. But I dont know what will happen if developers turn their back on them on a large scale when good quality 4GL development tools like VB/Delphi/PowerBuilder become available on Linux. And lastly, I dont think the other contender, Unix, will survive beyond a limited time. Most companies will be forced to shift from Unix to Linux in a major way due to cost factors as cost of Unix systems will shoot up due to decreasing market and increasing responsibility to support large systems. MS is at an advantage there as it hardly supports large systems. Thereby it wont be hit by high costs. Linux on the other hand needs to "survive" the war. People will need to "pay" to help them survive. MS will be waiting for people to realize that and hope people dont pay the Linux community instead of them. It will be a fantastic war! MS on the other hand has the master of marketing schemes Mr. Gates himself. It remains to be seen if his character will be that of the Krishna or that of the Bhiswa (pardon me for thinking in terms of the Mahabharatha).
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by Student on Jun 08, 2005 09:45 PMYes, I am a student and a novice in OS intallation and I installed SUSE linux in less than an hour. I have had no problems (i.e crashing, freezing etc. since I switched from MS windows) and it recognized all my hardware (not a new pc). Installation was simple. I can work much more productively and I have access to a world of support and updates. So just try it, I have heard very few negative comment about Linux, try it and see.
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by Jonny Bravo on Jun 08, 2005 07:38 PMWow, i have been using Linux on the desktop for 4 years. The only people that say Linux isn't ready for the desktop are either uneducated on the subject or in denial. The classic "i use Linux as a server blah blah blah" . I use it for both. Linux is by far better for the desktop than Wincrap or Crapple. Wake up people. Install it and use it as an every day and then come back here and let us know how wrong you people are. Oh, one more classic... " I'm a sys admin and blah blah....." I love when people start their response with that. Thats how you know it's a windows shop.
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by Rahul Raj on Jun 08, 2005 04:56 PM
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by Robert Hull on Jun 08, 2005 02:27 PMI am associated with a Computer School for novices. They learn Windows (because of the bigotry that is out there) AND Linux (for ease of use, security and power). They also learn how to install both. The most frequently asked question in the school is "why do people want to use Windows, when Linux is so much easier and more secure?"
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by Leo Gruijters on Jun 08, 2005 01:33 PMLinux on the desktop ? It's not quite there, yet... As a sysadmin I use Linux on the servers and it is simply great ! I have servers running for almost 6 years without any problems. They are only switched off to upgrade a harddisk or other maintenance. I tried to switch one of the offices to Desktop Linux. The problems, in short, I encountered were: - Shoddy websites that only barely work with IE (And only IE). - Shoddy programs that only barely work with XP. - Lack of computer skills by the end-users. After many years these skills had not improved at all. (I expected *some* improvement, but alas) A 'mixed' environment (Win4Lin, Crossover Office) was not an option (computer skills !), and being a realist, switched reluctantly back to XP. My conclusion: Linux on the desktop can be a big succes in a well defined, professional environment. But users in SMB's should mostly be considered as 'home users'. And Linux is not quite there yet... If only for the omni-presence of M$ stuff and the ignorance of many website designers who ignore standards and probably only test their work with IE. If only there was a way to run MS programs *seamlessly* under Linux. This would be the the ultimate solution.....
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by Dr. Martin Knir on Jun 08, 2005 01:14 PMI'm using linux for more than one decade now and never ever run into trouble due to instabilities or serious software bugs. Today's distributions are mostly very easy to install, even for novice users. The huge number of (free and well functioning) software makes it a real alternative to other desktop operating systems.
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by chanakya on Jun 07, 2005 11:41 AMMajority of the people who are somewhat reluctant and shy away from Linux is due to the widespread belief that one needs to be a bit of a techie and knowledgeable to be able to successfuly and satisfactorily use the Linux. The novice who always prefers simplicity is hardly bothered about the validity of this Linux set back. He/she just wants to get over with his/her work be it windows or linux. Furthermore, we must all admit that windows have parents. Linux is almost an orphan.
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by Spaniard on Jun 07, 2005 07:13 AMDear Todd, I am a linux user for the past 10 years. It is true that some things in Linux could be a bit easier or less messy from the point of view of a beginner, but that is rare nowadays. You have to consider that all this hardware problems that you mention are related to the pressure that MSoft put on hardware vendors not to liberate the drivers. So lets be fair and give a chance to Linux as a desktop OS. I have not used any other OS for at least 5 years on my laptop and I can asure you that OS X and WXP are not any better than Linux at all but worse. Also, OSX is closely related to linux as it is running FreeBSD under the hood, so you are contradicting your own words in your last sentence.
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by bsd on Jun 07, 2005 04:23 AMHey, Todd! Where in world are you living? Linux does not require, even any install for a desktop and, or server, Go try finding 100's of Live-CD distro's of Linux for example Knoppix, insert the that CD in your drive and set your box to boot off from the CD-DRIVE. If you're unable to use and, or learn Linux that does not mean Linux is difficult for everyone else; plz note, others may never be that stupid as that you yourself are. P.S. The reply button did not work, that's why I'm replying it directly.
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by John Bailo on Jun 07, 2005 01:53 AMGain acceptance? It already has acceptance. Recently Novell signed a deal to migrate 17,000 desktops to Linux. Why is this person spouting such garbage? He sounds like an old style Intel executive who hasn't been awake for the last 10 years. Intel needs to purge this stupidity or AMD will continue to eradicate them.
