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VIRTUALISATION It’s the Internet, Stupid.
VIRTUALISATION It’s the Internet, Stupid. | It’s the Internet, Stupid. |
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| by David Heath | |
| Monday, 20 July 2009 | |
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Sure the goodies under the hood are more amenable to tinkering – in fact we're actually *allowed* to tinker. Further, it's a general-purpose windowing (note: lowercase 'w') operating system capable of use in a variety of 'office' and other corporate applications. The full range of general-purpose tools are readily available – office productivity, graphical manipulation, file management To the best of my knowledge, there is no category of application that runs on (any variety of) Linux and not on Windows. So, this suggests that current incarnations of Linux are functionally no different than Windows itself. “Why bother” springs readily to mind. Let's come at this from a different direction. For more years than I care to remember, organisations have oscillated between desktop-hosted and remote-hosted applications. Obviously “in the beginning” we only had remote-hosted applications – running on mainframes; but since then, we have drifted toward the desktop with the rise of personal computers; then back again with the advent of local area networks. All the while, mainframes never quite seemed to go away. The world wide web, while initially a mostly read-only technology, has certainly evolved from there. Quickly adding both a two-way files environment (sharing of content) and also an interactive service (web-mail for instance) followed later by more interactive technologies such as chat and business-focussed tools, such as customer-focussed eCommerce. Aside from some specialised applications, business-centric applications were relatively late to the party. |
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