Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
According to Girardet, the cracks in the dam for Microsoft are
beginning widen as the software giant comes under increasing pressure
to bring its new products to market in order to perpetuate its pricing
model.
“You can see the troubles beginning for Microsoft now,” says Girardet.
“You just have to look at their latest press releases about their
delays and so on.”
According to Girardet, migrating from Windows to SLED is not going to
be the painful process that some people in the Windows community are
making it out to be.
“Our testing with usability groups has shown that people saw it as much
of a difference as going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP,” he says. “At
the end of the day the change is very similar but people can judge that
for themselves.
“My personal opinion is that we are now at the point with SLED where we
can make Linux hidden from the user. We have done a lot of usability
testing and it has allowed us to create a very easy to use and simple
interface designed around ease of access. Open Suse release 10.1 is
basis for the Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED). We have taken this
release in its entirety and have put some glue around it to make it
easy for people to install, put some drivers in, put some additional
proprietary software in, package it all together and that is basically
our flagship product.”
The only caveat on Girardet’s optimism is the impending final release
of SLED. The software is still in beta and the finished product is not
due to hit the market until sometime in June.
“We still have three solid months of development to do and the combined
effort that’s going on now is incredible,” he says.
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