The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Does that mean as many as 16% of enterprises plan to
deploy Microsoft's new operating system in the first year of its
release? If so what a great result for Microsoft and, based on previous
experience, that probably means that it will be shifting the majority
of enterprises to Windows 7 within three to five years.
Then of course, the same survey revealed that 50%
of IT shops are seriously evaluating non-Windows options for their
desktops. Yep, I guess if I was an IT manager in these cash strapped
times, I would also be looking for cheaper alternatives or else I
wouldn't be doing my job.
That said, the chasm between evaluation and adoption is enormous. Those
who seriously believe that moving an enterprise from Windows to Linux
on the desktop is going to be a cheaper exercise than upgrading from
Windows XP to Windows 7 are kidding themselves.
The most realistic and hence successful Linux company in the world
today is Red Hat. It knows on which side its bread is buttered and
that's the server side, where Linux rocks.
Like it or not, for most enterprises, there is simply too much Windows
applications lock in to realistically make the change to Linux on the
desktop. It can be done; it has been done (remember Ernie Ball) but the
pain is more than most companies can afford.
What is likely to get people off Windows is when absolutely everything
is in the cloud and it really doesn't matter which operating system you
use. But that's still a few years away.
The fact is most PC users in the enterprise want Windows 7 to succeed.
They're crying out for a good upgrade to XP and, based on the
deliberately leaked beta versions, Windows 7 will probably deliver the
goods this time.
David Bass
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