From: Tanju Aktuğ (aktugt@hipokrat.org)
Date: Tue 03 Jul 2001 - 08:58:21 EEST
Kısa Özet:
Otomotif devi Frod'un Avrupa kolu masaüstü sistemlerinde Microsoft'u
dışlamaya hazırlanıyor.
Richard Thwaite, firmanın Avrupa bilişim sorumlusu, "Biz açık fikirliyiz
ve daiam işimiz için en iyisini aramaktayız. Masaüstünde sürekli
Microsoft dışındaki olası çözümlere bakıyoruz." diyor.
Linux masaüstü düşünülüp, düşünülmediği sorulduğunda, " Açık kaynak
kodlu masaüstlerini araştırdıklarını" ve " Endüstrinin gidişinin bu
yönde olduğunu" söylüyor.
Ford'un Avrupa'da 33.000, dünya'da toplam 100.000 masaüstü sistemi
olduğu söyleniyor.
Tanju Aktuğ
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Orjinal Yazı (Zaten kısa)
Are the penguins coming home to roost for Bill?
Motor giant Ford's European arm is planning to ditch Microsoft as its
desktop operating systems provider and move to an open source
model, according to its European head of IT.
In an exclusive interview with silicon.com conducted at the IT
Director's Forum, Richard Thwaite, director of IT and ebusiness
infrastructure for Ford Europe, said an open source desktop was his
goal.
He told silicon.com: "We're always looking for potential vendors other
than Microsoft for the desktop. We're open-minded and seek to
find the best value possible for our business."
Asked if he would consider a Linux desktop, he said: "I think ultimately
we will look for an open source desktop. I think that's eventually
where the industry will go."
The news will come as a blow to Microsoft, which has enjoyed a virtual
monopoly on the desktop OS for nearly a decade, with
enterprises left with little real choice.
Richard Thwaite controls 33,000 desktops across Europe, while Ford as a
whole uses 100,000 desktop PCs worldwide. This is just the
kind of customer Microsoft needs to have on track if its latest OS and
applications suite - XP - is to be a success.
However, Linux evangelists say an open source desktop is very close to
providing a credible rival to Microsoft, with the KDE League, the
GNOME Foundation and Sun Microsystems all offering Linux desktops.
In the past Microsoft has maintained that large businesses aren't
interested in it, because of worries about functionality and poor
support.
Ford's interest in open source shows the software giant cannot rely on
this being the case.
Dan Kuznetsky, VP of systems software research for analyst house IDC,
said the news highlighted the problems Microsoft is having trying
to sell into a saturated market. He said: "Microsoft has chosen to make
the war against open source a religious one. In doing so it has just
managed to highlight it further, meaning IT Directors who wouldn't have
ever considered it are now thinking of moving over."
Microsoft was unable to comment on the news.
To watch interviews with Richard Thwaite and other high level users at
the IT Directors Forum, look out for our forthcoming News In
View programme.
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