Over at Novell, Guy Lunardi, Senior Product Manager of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, asserts that “we're there from a technological standpoint”, and the critical factor that prevents Linux from going gangbusters, says co-Novellite Michael Applebaum, Product Marketing Manager for the Desktop, is “simply the awareness that desktop Linux is already a very viable platform”.ĭespite bullishness on the part of Linux vendors, these same companies admit that they remain in barrier-removal mode.
Meanwhile, Gerry Carr, Marketing Manager at Canonical (commercial supporter of Ubuntu), adds that “we find ourselves at the beginning of a bell curve, where only a minority of potential clients have deployed, and we're engaged in talks with the people who are in the big hump of the curve”. For instance, Mindy Anderson, Business Manager for Client Strategies at Red Hat, states that “the desktop is working itself into being disruptive in many industries, including finance, telecommunications and health care”. Nevertheless, forward movement is occurring for Linux on the enterprise desktop, and the people on the front lines are bullish. The people I spoke with pointed to trends, but they generally could back them up with only a single example or weren't able to mention the client's name. Although interesting and significant implementations exist, more large-scale projects are in the pipeline than have emerged from it. From talking with several people in the industry who promote desktop Linux to the enterprise for a living, my overall impression is that the Linux desktop wave is indeed building.
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