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greggh
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by greggh » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:32 pm
http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22062
The study found that "90 percent of participants have concerns about the migration to Windows Vista." What's worse, from Microsoft's perspective, is that future plans to deploy Vista seemed stunted too. Roughly half (53 percent) of respondents said that they "have no plans to deploy Vista at this time."
The survey asked participants if they had "considered the possibility of deploying any non-Windows operating system as an alternative to adopting Windows Vista." It turned out that 44 percent of participants said that they were indeed considering a non-Windows alternative.
"I was shocked by this answer," Hagglund commented.
The Windows OS replacement that respondents mentioned most was Macintosh (28 percent), followed by Red Hat Linux (23 percent), SuSE Linux (18 percent), Ubuntu (18 percent), other Linux (nine percent) and not sure (four percent).
That adds up to: 30% of the surveyed IT professionals are at least considering moving from windows to Linux. Wow!
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davijordan
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by davijordan » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:43 am
My brother teaches puters at a local community college. He added ubuntu to his hardware class curriculum. He also teaches ms xp and ms vista, but he will not use MS Vista at home.
