Where are the Enterprise Management Tools for Linux on the Desktop?
On January 5, Doc Searls asked What would you use Exchange for? A good question and based on the number of comments, it is generating a lot of discussion. As someone currently embedded in a primarily Windows environment, I want to know where the enterprise management tools for the Linux desktop are?
About every three months, some new vulnerability in Windows or a key subsystem spurs new traffic across a variety of forums along the lines of if you ran Linux, you wouldn't have these problems. The self appointed prophets, zealots or kooks are generally saying this from the position of a single platform or small install base. However, when the scale of installation exceeds the number of machines you can manage manually (and that depends on how dedicated you are, in most cases it seems to be about 10 desktops) and begins to approach a number where you need a staff to manage them, then Linux as a desktop solution begins to lose its luster. This is not to say that Linux as a desktop OS is not possible, but, the management and maintenance of the desktop environment becomes the proverbial long pole in the tent and begins to chew up resources, in terms of manpower and costs.
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