On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:22:51 +0000 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:05:21PM +0000, mick wrote:
The /only/ reason we do not see the same problems that beset the MS world is that we /are/ a minority. If Linux were running on 90% of all corporate desktops then we would be drowning in Linux malware.
Except who wants a corporate desktop? Surely a nice Linux computer in a datacentre with a 1 gigabit/second link to the Internet is far more useful than something sitting on a slower connection behind a firewall.
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".
Mick
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