Where' s Linux
by Volker Weber
Somewhat belated, an observation that Josh Ledgard made at Linuxworld:
I saw plenty of people with windows laptops and plenty of OS X notebooks, but outside of the booths and Sun sessions I was surprised at the lack of people running Linux. Sure, their slide decks talked a big game, but it looked a lot like Powerpoint and Windows XP underneath for Dan Powers(IBM VP of Grid Computing and Emerging Technologies) and several others. For presenters and general show goers I saw it felt like the order was MS > OS X > Linux. It surprised me enough to mention it I guess.
While Karen Smith, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM, dismisses OpenOffice: "What we haven't seen become available is a full replacement for Microsoft Office", I think both are missing one important piece: There is also Lotus Notes, that keeps IBM on the Microsoft platform.
