On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:40:49AM +0000, mick wrote:
I'm not at all sure what you are saying here. Large corporates roll out huge desktop installations across their estate (quarter of a million PCs to upgrade anyone?) as a matter of routine. Those desktops are interconnected with each other and with the corporate servers over gig ethernet. They access the wider net through (often multiple) gateways which mediate the traffic.
And they do have "nice Linux computer(s) in datacentres with gigabit/second link to the Internet".
What I'm saying is... why would a corporate desktop which may have locked down access to the internet be a better target than a linux server on a fast gigabit link. Most corps may have gigabit in their internal network but not many have a gig to the internet at large. Compared to most hosting companies which do provide a gigabit connection to the internet in a well connected data center.
I'm not sure that there are /that/ many companies out there with 250,000 desktop computers in their inventory. You'll still find that number will be dwarfed by the number of desktops in smaller companies.
Adam