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What is keeping you from having absolute confidence in using Linux for mission-critical applications?
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1.10/11/2007 2:47:00 PMGood confidence. Just missing Adobe Illustrator.
2.10/17/2007 1:40:00 AMCross platform adaptation.
3.10/17/2007 1:40:00 AM1. Somes applications are not stable enough. To be more specifically, some productivity tools on Linux are not stable enough, and are not 100% compatible with legacy proprietary products. Some critical business applications are not as thoroughly tested as those conterparts on Windows. 2. Linux desktop suspend/hibernation is not reliable. 3. Wifi support is not always usable out-of-the-box on many laptops. 4. GUI speed is slower than Windows.
4.10/17/2007 1:50:00 AMLatest kernel development model seems to produce rather unstable and untested software. I'd rather stick to FreeBSD and OpenBSD for the most critical applications.
5.10/17/2007 2:03:00 AMAbundant tools and update quickly.
6.10/17/2007 2:06:00 AMOffice suite and calendar applications.
7.10/17/2007 2:41:00 AMNot familiar enough yet with linux as windows systems have been used in the past and further experience and usage is required with Linux os systems to fully appreciate its potential over windows os
8.10/17/2007 3:30:00 AMIncompatibility with propritary format
9.10/17/2007 3:45:00 AMAlthough linux is good for server environment, the users find it too hard to get accustomed to. If the development programmer find it too hard to adjust to it as no adequate programming IDE (GUI development) comparable to Micro$oft Visual Studio, the users will have difficulties to adjust too. Linux Learning curve too steep on every aspect, and trouble shooting for hardware incompabilities took days - if not weeks. Driver is hard to find for desktop environment - unless the linux is preinstalled - therefore hardware specific. these stamenent maybe obsolete in couple of months because of large community working on iT (especially one aggresive disto ... oohhboontoo) Now there is still ** A LOT ** of workaround to do in order to make linux 'operational' and 'acceptable' on mission critical application.
10.10/17/2007 3:51:00 AMwe use ellie mae's encompass loan management program and we have no knowledge of test deployments of this in linux.
11.10/17/2007 3:53:00 AMNot all Applications/utilities in Windows are available in Linux
12.10/17/2007 3:59:00 AMDifficulty connecting with some devices.
13.10/17/2007 4:22:00 AMBuy-in from end-users and management over Microsoft pressure to continue as is
14.10/17/2007 4:36:00 AMsupport from vendors
15.10/17/2007 4:45:00 AMLinux lacks a simplified, unified installation method. if programs were always installed in the same uniform method and included all necessary files and that became the standard for installation I would feel more secure. I have installed programs in my testing and they seemed to work...but as I was required to use terminal I was unable to know for sure that everything was 110% functional...and a week later I had a few issues. I feel that a &quot;install shield&quot; or standard installation should be offered with all software and should be some how made easier for programmers to facilitate in *nix systems.
16.10/17/2007 5:24:00 AMlack of professional support and critical business applications is still not ported
17.10/17/2007 5:42:00 AMOld management. Not exist CAD/CAM software.
18.10/17/2007 6:37:00 AMNo software has my confience that high - depending on definition of *mission critical*. If the odd failure in mission critical can be tolerated then yes, linux is fine, better than Windows
19.10/17/2007 6:40:00 AMI dont knw........
20.10/17/2007 6:53:00 AMMore developer pool and support form internet
21.10/17/2007 7:35:00 AMLack of adequate support
22.10/17/2007 7:45:00 AMLack of experience
23.10/17/2007 7:46:00 AMSimplay have never seen Linux used for mission critical applications and am unaware of how it would perform in such scenarios. I believe, however, from other usage that Linux should be capable of handling these types of application.
24.10/17/2007 7:50:00 AMStability.
25.10/17/2007 7:50:00 AMCompatibity issues with office documents.
26.10/17/2007 8:10:00 AMWe need more apps for the the Linux platform
27.10/17/2007 8:24:00 AMNeed for hack scripts to mass-add users to LDAP and other routine management, bad integration of Kerberos (which we therefore don't use).
28.10/17/2007 8:29:00 AMnone of such applications running
29.10/17/2007 8:33:00 AMAuto-CAD
30.10/17/2007 8:43:00 AMFrequent regressions discovered in recent kernels.
31.10/17/2007 8:44:00 AMdatabase system developped in ms environment
32.10/17/2007 8:52:00 AMUsing Gnu/Linux in my firm would require a massive amount of redevelopment; our firm completely relies on a custom document management system that is heavily tied into MS Office and Internet Explorer, with Windows applications. Added to that, we have hundreds of templates and &quot;precedents&quot; set up in Word documents. I personally think that MS Office is technically better than OOo. OOo is very slow to load up if you are just wanting to look at a document. Another mission-critical function for our business are those available in Outlook/Exchange. We need to share calendars/mailboxes with our secretaries, share common mailboxes between groups of people, have a corporate directory, schedule appointments/send meeting requests and be able to see when people are free or busy before we send them. We also use voting a fair bit, but it isn't quite so mission critical. I understand that Novell have OpenExchange, but I haven't ever actually seen a Gnu/Linux set-up that has it working properly. I am a Free Software Foundation member and would love to see my organisation adopt Gnu/Linux. If I were starting my own business, I would insist that it be based on free software. But given our current set-up, I wouldn't be comfortable suggesting that we move everything over tomorrow.
33.10/17/2007 9:08:00 AMJust my personal experience should not be still adequate
34.10/17/2007 9:09:00 AM- compatibility with MS Office - application, that uses MSIE with MS-specific features - psychology of users (something else?, why?, I am accustomed to Win, I have it home...)
35.10/17/2007 9:32:00 AMInternet howto
36.10/17/2007 9:49:00 AMHardware issues. Every time I've tested it I've run into difficulties configuring hardware. This would make it a support nightmare at the institutional level for desktops. Students bring their own machines. To deal with each for wireless access and video problems is a horrendous thought.
37.10/17/2007 9:50:00 AMRetraining, hardware problems (USB, bluetooth devices - webcams, headsets, ...), increased support cost
38.10/17/2007 9:57:00 AMStability is not 100%.
39.10/17/2007 10:13:00 AMIt's not the confidence in Linux it's the available product range. Engineering and Graphics products are not developed enough and the effect range of OpenOffice Impress does not meet that of PowerPoint.
40.10/17/2007 10:28:00 AMSmall real-time mission-critical systems should run without OS on simple HW (microcontroller). Big not-such-real-time mission-critical systems should run under Linux, but not on PC HW.
41.10/17/2007 10:52:00 AMinstability
42.10/17/2007 10:52:00 AMLack of financial applications.
43.10/17/2007 11:38:00 AMcritical applications such as photoshop/flash
44.10/17/2007 11:53:00 AMEquivalent functionality with MS (Visio, MS Project, MS Access, Sharepoint) Support for in house applications
45.10/17/2007 12:10:00 PMPoor quality of applications. Lack of commitment by distribution's maintainers to fix non-security related bugs.
46.10/17/2007 12:12:00 PMThe compatibility of hardwares And ease of use
47.10/17/2007 12:26:00 PMStill new to Linux
48.10/17/2007 12:42:00 PM1) printer and scanner support (still not able to make Canon i990[printer] to work or Canon 4200F[scanner] 2) Lack of user friendly video editing and dvd authoring tools (i.e. power director for windows) 3) The need to manually compile drivers for external devices like a usb tv tuner (for example AverMedia provides the driver but there is no user friendly tool to install it and u need console commands knowledge and internet access in order to complete the install)
49.10/17/2007 12:47:00 PMthe users attitude towards linux
50.10/17/2007 12:48:00 PMthe stability and the fact that none knows how to work with linux
51.10/17/2007 12:49:00 PM1) lack of full printer and scanner support (i.e. Canon i990 printer and Canon 4200F scanner) 2) lack of user friendly video editing and dvd authoring tools (like power director for windows) 3) difficulty to install drivers for external devices that are not supported by kernel (for example u need command line to install the drivers for AverMedia USB tv tuner.) Linux distributions need a fully GUI for drivers installation and not command line compile.
52.10/17/2007 1:01:00 PMThe reason that it has a lot of distros and applications for a specific task. needs to be more focused and developed as a specific OS and not to have 300 or more distros.
53.10/17/2007 1:01:00 PMLack of proper tools for editing multimedia content, even when those files are free formats like Theora, Vorbis, and Speex. That doesn't make any sense, since Linux should be the one platform to work with free formats. This isn't the case, however. For instance, the audio editor Audacity pretty much works only Microsoft Wave and MP3. On the audio production level, while JACK is very impressive, ALSA is horrible and distros need to go back to OSS now that it's free software again. It's also quite annoying that some audio players in Linux while very pretty like Amarok and useful for day-to-day tasks lack the impressive and professional environment for audio processing that for instance Windows foobar2000 has (e.g. 15 band Equalizer, Convolver, Accurate Resampler, Headphone room spacing control, Archive reader, etc.). Buggy desktop environment (we use KDE) is also a problem. Many times we have to halt something to try to work around a random bug to proceed. It seriously needs some good polish and ironing out more bugs. Office suite (KOffice and OpenOffice.org) are also drastically inferior to some proprietary solutions. Again, they do not work well with free multimedia formats like SVG or Vorbis. Presentations in OOo Impress do not look as &quot;shinny&quot; as they should be. Speaking of presentation software, every time a client sends a PowerPoint file we have to go use our only Microsoft Windows machine to watch it, due to Evince and OOo being unable to render it properly. That's due to PowerPoint files being a proprietary format, but it's still a concern what with so many of them on the wild. In conclusion, our problem isn't drivers. Our hardware is Linux-friendly so to say. Our problem isn't editing configuration files either; we have a great Linux admin here. Our problem is the lack of polish in tools and how badly they interact with free formats. We could be much more productive if everything worked well and properly.
54.10/17/2007 1:42:00 PMinstability of package managers/inconsistency of package repositories
55.10/17/2007 1:55:00 PMThere are always somebody who can crack machine.
56.10/17/2007 2:16:00 PMSome applications simply don't have a Linux equivalent and can't be run on wine/crossover/cedega.
57.10/17/2007 2:27:00 PMWe have problem with GNU/Linux apply due to missing OS independent Museum database system (what all the czech museum institutions uses is crappy database built on MS Access 97), but it could probably run under WINE, although. And second problem is that there is no really sufficient OCR program in Linux (or that I found had problems with czech texts) and also OpenOffice is not too good in printing. And last problem is that there is lot of older people who are used to windows too much unfortunately... :(
58.10/17/2007 2:36:00 PMEnd user applications are not finalized. For example I use KDE and I need one per mounth print very large table from net in frame. With Konqueror I can open frame in new tab, I can print it landscape, but I CAN'T LET KDE FIT IT TO A4 PAPER SIZE
59.10/17/2007 2:53:00 PMHave experienced issues when upgrading the kernel (using apt-get) where it wouldn't boot after the upgrade.
60.10/17/2007 3:01:00 PMThe acceleration of the rate of change in all distributions. Managing change is an exceedingly difficult issue with regard to compliance and the overload of committee decisions about every change!
61.10/17/2007 3:10:00 PMNot enough experienced Linux admins to fix things when they go wrong
62.10/17/2007 3:20:00 PMProven track record
63.10/17/2007 3:20:00 PMPercentages of Systems running Linux, While number is somehow not important, it does have an effect! I say in 5 years!
64.10/17/2007 3:25:00 PMEnd user training and acceptance.
65.10/17/2007 3:26:00 PMbackward compatibility formal support
66.10/17/2007 3:35:00 PMWith the release of MS Office 2007 exchanging documents between Windows and Linux is now a hassle because of the new OOXML format. Additionally we rely on Lotus Notes for email, calendaring, and numerous databases. Currently there is a Linux version of Lotus Notes, but it very difficult to install on anything but RHEL. I personally use the windows version under WINE though it is not an ideal solution.
67.10/17/2007 3:35:00 PMMain stream applications from for sale for Linux.
68.10/17/2007 3:35:00 PMBoss :)
69.10/17/2007 3:39:00 PMI have absolute confidence in Linux as an operating system. However, it is very difficult to run our custom software on Linux today.
70.10/17/2007 3:43:00 PMHardware support
71.10/17/2007 3:46:00 PMIt's a fast moving target.
72.10/17/2007 3:46:00 PMThe &quot;spit and polish&quot; really: * ease of installation within a well-managed debian environment, not from a script, unless that script knows debian -- debian PPC, included. * general application stability: even the most professional desktop apps like kmail are still flakey at times (for example, using IMAP). Some things are just lazily-done (for example, not implementing filtering over IMAP in a transparent way that allows the same features as POP filtering). * many apps doing the same thing, but each app having it's own file format weaknesses, strengths, etc. Take video editors for example: Amigas had standard libraries for loading content DECADES ago, but Linux people are still arguing over which multimedia framework to get behind. As a result, the video editing apps are extremely limited, each using different frameworks, crashing when loading fairly standard filetypes, etc. Development needs to be FOCUSED, and shared among more core projects.
73.10/17/2007 3:46:00 PMeducation (certification)
74.10/17/2007 3:55:00 PMlack of knowledge
75.10/17/2007 4:01:00 PMReliability of NFSv4 server.
76.10/17/2007 4:06:00 PMthe possibility to answer in the previous screen: &quot;that depends.&quot;
77.10/17/2007 4:08:00 PMI feel comfortable with a lot of apps, but not enough to warrant mixed environment. This is caused by lack of compatibility with existing technologies. a) Samba should be automatically authenticate me against Active Directory b) Evolution does not pick-up all my emails and cannot connect to address book (Exchange) c) Firefox does not work well with ASP apps (not Mozilla's fault) d) Lack of Linux apps such as JD Edwards (fat client), Cognos, Visual Sudios (Monodevelop is too buggy)
78.10/17/2007 4:08:00 PMNo working prototype for our embedded hardware
79.10/17/2007 4:09:00 PMDocumentation mainly. Also retraining en-masse will be difficult.
80.10/17/2007 4:12:00 PMKnowledge
81.10/17/2007 4:41:00 PMMomentum with existing systems.
82.10/17/2007 4:43:00 PMThe fact that some of the hardware we use isn't supported under Linux. That some of the apps we use are limited to Windows right now. That the interface within Linux just isn't quite as sharp yet as that of Win Xp. That We still have some KDE desktop quirks with our entire Kubuntu 7.04 network.
83.10/17/2007 4:46:00 PMNot absolutely confident a particular distribution and/or desktop application will still be maintained a &quot;couple years&quot; from now.
84.10/17/2007 4:47:00 PMNothing
85.10/17/2007 4:50:00 PMOffice and Photo editing, Network printers and scanner All-in_one devices
86.10/17/2007 4:54:00 PMDowntime from migration and user skills
87.10/17/2007 4:57:00 PMdetermining optimum security configuration settings for servers and users
88.10/17/2007 5:05:00 PMI don't have any mission-critical apps.
89.10/17/2007 5:09:00 PMI always keep coming back to the Mac. Hoewever, I'm now in a position of working on a SQL driven website, and I can't get my Mac SQL to talk properly to apache, so that job is probably going to be implemented on my Linux machine.
90.10/17/2007 5:12:00 PMLack of application and working hardware.For example it is too much work to get hardware working with Linux.I am not still able to use my usb webcam,printer.Wireless support is miserable.Linux has steep learning curve.There are not many application available on Linux which are essential to our business.Like MS Office (Do not recommend OpenOffice.org),Tally etc.
91.10/17/2007 5:12:00 PMApplications not ported to Linux or no equivalent. And printer drivers for major printer brands.
92.10/17/2007 5:13:00 PMStill have occasional hiccups (more than W2K/W2K3) in the system that require complete rebuilds. It's not often, but it happens.
93.10/17/2007 5:18:00 PMLack of pharma-related tools, utilities and applications available for Linux. Examples available for Windows are EndNote, Graphpad Prism.
94.10/17/2007 5:21:00 PMNothing
95.10/17/2007 5:25:00 PMReally good development tools working like delphi and borland c++ for gtk.
96.10/17/2007 5:26:00 PMUsing Solaris instead
97.10/17/2007 5:30:00 PMThe possibility of debugging the sourcecode.
98.10/17/2007 5:31:00 PMincompatibility, hardware isues
99.10/17/2007 5:32:00 PMFull trust as server and everything is available. But need more thirdparty apps on desktop.
100.10/17/2007 5:33:00 PMsupport for critical application in business
101.10/17/2007 5:34:00 PMToo much manualreading, too much googleing, Too much things that dont simply work instantly.
102.10/17/2007 5:36:00 PMSome applications that are used in the company are not cross platform. Therefore, we can not fully use linux like we would like to
103.10/17/2007 5:45:00 PMDevelopment model.
104.10/17/2007 5:46:00 PMUsers have no idea about Linux and how useful it is. Personly I have a desktop at home and love it but current setup at work works so well we haven't thought about switching to anything else, including gnu/linux
105.10/17/2007 5:47:00 PMGetting legal to have the confidence to let us use it.
106.10/17/2007 5:54:00 PMnot enough softwares
107.10/17/2007 5:56:00 PMown limitations
108.10/17/2007 5:57:00 PMit is not fully compatible with all our softwares.
109.10/17/2007 5:57:00 PMStability in desktop and desktop applications
110.10/17/2007 6:01:00 PMStability, back support
111.10/17/2007 6:02:00 PMThe lack of widespread support for WiFi-cards in notebooks/laptops. During our evaluations we've had a lot of time wasted trying to configure Linux to work with the WiFi-cards in our portable computers.
112.10/17/2007 6:04:00 PMExperience..
113.10/17/2007 6:05:00 PMunstability, not all hardware supported
114.10/17/2007 6:11:00 PMavailability of compatible software
115.10/17/2007 6:11:00 PMCAD Software does not work in Linux
116.10/17/2007 6:13:00 PMActually, windows confidence is lower, i just dont have ABSOLUTE confidnce in A system without failover, backup (etc).
117.10/17/2007 6:15:00 PMCritical old software, still even using Win3.10 on two units due to this.
118.10/17/2007 6:15:00 PMLack of government support - we have to submit data to Tax Office and similar, to the local authorities, and those can only be sent by applications running on windows
119.10/17/2007 6:16:00 PMNot the final say in that respect.
120.10/17/2007 6:16:00 PMProprietary applications are more specialized than applications available to Linux. Linux's applications lack key functions some times.
121.10/17/2007 6:17:00 PMDNX and HTR
122.10/17/2007 6:18:00 PMI need to use photoshop
123.10/17/2007 6:18:00 PMunsupported hardware
124.10/17/2007 6:19:00 PMLimited support for third-party hardware like wireless cards and displays.
125.10/17/2007 6:19:00 PMGUI is buggy but i wuld newer have an Kritical server setup with GUI
126.10/17/2007 6:21:00 PMLack of enough experience.
127.10/17/2007 6:21:00 PMCompability
128.10/17/2007 6:22:00 PMApplications for management
129.10/17/2007 6:22:00 PMother
130.10/17/2007 6:22:00 PMmore practice
131.10/17/2007 6:22:00 PMBad integration of applications, absence of uniform management approach (similar to Microsoft Management Console).
132.10/17/2007 6:23:00 PMWorking with Microsoft .NET and SQLServer development.
133.10/17/2007 6:26:00 PMdidnt have the edukation in linux
134.10/17/2007 6:27:00 PMHave experienced problems with installations, probably because i'm still a novice - But because of this I would not use Linux for important task at work for exampel, until i've mastered it properly.
135.10/17/2007 6:28:00 PMI'm not sure is our ERP software rns on Linux (probably not).
136.10/17/2007 6:29:00 PMLack of desktop application and on those who exist the lack of look and feel ... take fonts for an example
137.10/17/2007 6:32:00 PMStability and hardware compatability
138.10/17/2007 6:33:00 PMAutomated recovery tools, standardization of applications, greater compatibility with windows resources (specifically web resources requiring windows related)
139.10/17/2007 6:37:00 PMdrivers for all hardware
140.10/17/2007 6:37:00 PMMostly my lack of knowledge. But one big factor is that things can stop working after updates, for example kernelmodules like lirc.
141.10/17/2007 6:38:00 PMNo personal experience / knowledge of Linux in HA / critical / under load situations. No personal experience / knowledge of tuning Linux for high performance, high availibility, high security. No personal experience / knowledge of troubleshooting a badly behaving Linux server installation. No external consulting firm with the right knowledge in our area, and I am also not interested in buying expensive consulting hours for something that we can solve internally using Windows servers.
142.10/17/2007 6:39:00 PMLack of confidence in the commitment of big ISVs like Oracle &amp; SAP in Linux. Their level of Linux integration &amp; support is perceived as lacking. For mission-critical stuff we only use the preferred ISV OS platform.
143.10/17/2007 6:42:00 PMNot enough solid system. No standards for API. It should be standard API`s for all system's services, including user interface and desktop environments.
144.10/17/2007 6:42:00 PMAt sometimes, things don't just work. e.g I often face problem with my audio setting just before doing a voice call with client over IM. New features are great but a mission critical system should aim for 0 bugs, something that many developers don't like to hear.
145.10/17/2007 6:42:00 PMCurrent experience with two Linux servers. Lack of Linux professionalist on the market. Wide spread of Linux distribution which is confusing. Linux distribution's numeration doesn't reflect Linux kernel numeration. Almost impossible to track custimizing level of distribution's kernel. I'm not confident that distributor included only stable and 100% tested patches.Linux kernel is very chaotic, f.e. could not understand how it was possible to remove devfs from kernel w/o change to major kernel number. In general, Linux is not trustable and ready for corporate use.
146.10/17/2007 6:43:00 PM-
147.10/17/2007 6:43:00 PMUsers too hard wired into MS solutions.
148.10/17/2007 6:44:00 PMEnterprise supportservices
149.10/17/2007 6:46:00 PM1. business programm needs Windows 2. If Linux runs all ok, if not - I am out of solutions. 3. in tests not finding wifi - wep-key solutions
150.10/17/2007 6:47:00 PMSpell checking are not what it should be in swedish. Gimp and Inkscape are not close to the adobe suite either in preformence as in being user friendly. To many &quot;dummy&quot; users that only is fermiliar with windows and screems for help when something aint as last time they booted the system.
151.10/17/2007 6:48:00 PMSupport for specific applications. Audit and compliance with SOX / PCI requirements are also a concern.
152.10/17/2007 6:49:00 PMPractical use
153.10/17/2007 6:49:00 PMInsight in the security issues
154.10/17/2007 6:50:00 PMOffice compat, email/groupware
155.10/17/2007 6:51:00 PMbackward compatibility is missing: glic 2.2.x &amp; 2.3.x &lt;-&gt; 2.4 and newer!
156.10/17/2007 6:52:00 PMLack of simulations tools (commercial and opensource) available for electronic simulation. Luckily someone focuses on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab
157.10/17/2007 6:53:00 PMHaven't personally seen the results of using Linux in mission-critical applications.
158.10/17/2007 6:56:00 PMknow how
159.10/17/2007 6:57:00 PMincomplete status of interoperability (office)
160.10/17/2007 7:03:00 PMNot userfriendly
161.10/17/2007 7:04:00 PMLack of experience of Linux, due to failed implementation.
162.10/17/2007 7:04:00 PMAbility to run all needed Windows applications without problems in Wine. Alternatively ability to run Photoshop, MS Office, Outlook and Office plugins natively on Linux.
163.10/17/2007 7:05:00 PMthere is no Adobe Photoshop for linux. Do not want to emulate
164.10/17/2007 7:06:00 PMLack of high level and well known software
165.10/17/2007 7:06:00 PMThe range of applications.
166.10/17/2007 7:08:00 PMfear that the support for a particular app will stop
167.10/17/2007 7:10:00 PMStill learning linux, never did anything big on business scale with linux.
168.10/17/2007 7:11:00 PMConfusion in what distro to use. Is it worth spending effort and time on RH? SUSE? or Ubuntu? Too many distros...is the inhibitor.
169.10/17/2007 7:13:00 PMLack of applications.
170.10/17/2007 7:14:00 PMNot enough applications
171.10/17/2007 7:21:00 PMLack of software and experience
172.10/17/2007 7:21:00 PMmplayer xmms gimp gnome-commander iceweasel
173.10/17/2007 7:24:00 PMToo many bugs. I have always problem with installing Linux on my hardware, always at least one problem with drivers.
174.10/17/2007 7:27:00 PMERP system client runs under Windows.
175.10/17/2007 7:27:00 PMNo MS Visual Studio for Linux
176.10/17/2007 7:28:00 PMThey are not rewritten Linux onto a platform!
177.10/17/2007 7:29:00 PMDriver support for the hardware that we use.
178.10/17/2007 7:29:00 PMour application is a
179.10/17/2007 7:29:00 PMdriverproblems
180.10/17/2007 7:33:00 PMLack of Testing.
181.10/17/2007 7:34:00 PMlack of support
182.10/17/2007 7:35:00 PMhw drivers, less regressions
183.10/17/2007 7:37:00 PMMy own lack of knowledge and lack of experience about Linux, and my experience of how difficult it can be to sync wide networks even when everyone uses the same OS.
184.10/17/2007 7:41:00 PMX, gnome, kde... I like linux on my server (postfix, apache, subvesion), but it seems linux will never be by friend when it comes to desktop/GUI.
185.10/17/2007 7:41:00 PMISV support for platforms.
186.10/17/2007 7:44:00 PMDo not have enough hardware support, should be easier for end user to use that do not requier an extrem technical cunning about software. Must not be like windows or other operatingsystems but should be userfriendly in it own way. Linux is on good way on the desktop market so it is on it's way to be a good product for the ordinary person.
187.10/17/2007 7:46:00 PMStill haven't found a slim and stable installation
188.10/17/2007 7:48:00 PMPhotoshop! Gimp is not enuff.
189.10/17/2007 7:48:00 PMSpecial applications only for MS Windows OS. Higher hardware requirment of GUI, compare to MS Windows 98 SE.
190.10/17/2007 7:49:00 PMCompability with the users programs.
191.10/17/2007 7:50:00 PMWireless is almost always buggy.
192.10/17/2007 7:50:00 PMI don't know, my WLAN won't work
193.10/17/2007 7:50:00 PMKnowledge (my lack of it), Ref-Clients
194.10/17/2007 7:51:00 PMsome applications we use is based on windows databases
195.10/17/2007 7:59:00 PMInstability in development of linux and its flavours (distros).
196.10/17/2007 7:59:00 PMNo games!
197.10/17/2007 8:00:00 PMnothing except that my boss dont know anything about Linux
198.10/17/2007 8:03:00 PM(debian)samba-server client- windows &amp; ubuntu (7.10)
199.10/17/2007 8:03:00 PMNot sure that mission-critical application equivivalents exist
200.10/17/2007 8:04:00 PMIf i could run games such as developed for Windows environment, then i would not hesitate to run Linux. Make games work under linux, then i and many more peole would run linux for sure. Games, i mean games like you can buy at retail stores. Linux should be a hit if you would be able to run games, majority of people who use pc's wants to run linux but cant because the games they buy wont work... You should make the Windows games and programs work under linux. Every man would run linux after that.
201.10/17/2007 8:05:00 PMLack of stability in applications. Sure, the kernel is somewhat stable, but many applications lack features or act flaky.
202.10/17/2007 8:05:00 PMLinux is so diverse, different distributions, different kernel versions, lack of common, stable standards
203.10/17/2007 8:26:00 PMUnknown compability
204.10/17/2007 8:27:00 PMAudio editing. I use Ubuntu because the company that manufactured my laptop no longer supports that model. Adobe Audition is an industry standard and Audacity just doesn't keep up in certain aspects. Mostly default MP3 support and multi-track editing. Being in the radio industry audio editing is very important. My boss is waiting for open source to excel in these areas before rolling Linux out on to our much dated system.
205.10/17/2007 8:28:00 PMAvailability of information
206.10/17/2007 8:31:00 PMLack of available software.
207.10/17/2007 8:32:00 PMWe've had some bad past experiance with Ubuntu. I've used Red Hat many years ago and it was great thou. Still I would deploy Linux due to the massiv workload it wold mean to learn the skills needed to use Linux efficently.
208.10/17/2007 8:33:00 PMThere is still some software compability that needs to be fixed before we can change all client-computers to a linux-desktop-dist.
209.10/17/2007 8:33:00 PMboss opinoin is negative to free software,
210.10/17/2007 8:34:00 PMHave not done enough testing, the OS is very different from Windows.
211.10/17/2007 8:36:00 PMLack of company support. You can install linux in my organization. No support however, every problem you encounter is yours problem then.
212.10/17/2007 8:37:00 PMSoftware we use is for product development is not yet supported on Linux. Upper management is not confident in Linux.
213.10/17/2007 8:39:00 PMNothing, it enables me to have complete control, and I like it.
214.10/17/2007 8:40:00 PM.
215.10/17/2007 8:40:00 PMTo difficult everything, no support to call. I have installed Linux at home on my Playstation 3, yellow dog. And it was a extremly big disapointment... YDL didnt support the PS3&#180;s, blu-ray, WLAN, blu-tooth, not possible play DVDs and so forth ... after that i lost my confidence in Linux.
216.10/17/2007 8:44:00 PMWhile this will never happen without a major shift in the software world I wish open standards (such as *.odt files) were compatible with the proprietary tools used by most other people in the world. This is not a failure in linux or open source software but a failure in preventing proprietary systems from keeping open standards used.
217.10/17/2007 8:45:00 PMphotoshop
218.10/17/2007 8:47:00 PMnot enough critical mass on linux knowledge within it
219.10/17/2007 8:47:00 PMThe mission-critical application(s) doesn't/don't run on Linux, and any potential substitutes are lagging more than a decade behind. Not even fairly extensive experimenting with Wine/Crossover Office has worked to defeat the hurdles. Linux + desktop environment as such has been more than ripe for at least ten years already...
220.10/17/2007 8:49:00 PMLack of software.
221.10/17/2007 8:52:00 PMMy own lack of knowledge about linux
222.10/17/2007 8:54:00 PMWe need the applications we are using to be compatible.
223.10/17/2007 8:55:00 PMtechnical support
224.10/17/2007 8:57:00 PMI dont know enough about Linux as I have always used Windows.
225.10/17/2007 8:58:00 PMIntegration with other systems.
226.10/17/2007 9:00:00 PMMan always have to learn some think... Humans learn live long.
227.10/17/2007 9:03:00 PMWe are currently developing these database applications in a cross-platform manner.
228.10/17/2007 9:03:00 PMCompadibility with the computers at school when I have finisched a work and are showing it on a window OS.
229.10/17/2007 9:04:00 PMUnable to use specific windows applications which have no linux based software for.
230.10/17/2007 9:06:00 PMAdobe softwares compatibility
231.10/17/2007 9:09:00 PMdon't know, maybe a little experience in work with linux systems, But anyway, I think future is for linux
232.10/17/2007 9:10:00 PMCompany Management
233.10/17/2007 9:23:00 PMThat's my personal impressure. In our company there is no critical application! Our users get what they need (Java-Clients on Linux, inhouse-solution) and we are on the way to migrate to Linux, so that we would decrease the need of Windows under 10% and lesser ... P.S.: i'm in this company since 15 years and in that time we have used Niros, OS/2, Windows and now its Linux (Server: OS390 &lt;IMS, DB2, CICS ...&gt;, AIX, etc.)
234.10/17/2007 9:23:00 PMTry to get WoW and most other games running as well under linux as they do in windows, in under 1hour worktime..
235.10/17/2007 9:24:00 PMI did work with real Unix'es - so I can compare :)
236.10/17/2007 9:24:00 PMI dont understand enough of the system in Linux dists.
237.10/17/2007 9:25:00 PMDon't know enough
238.10/17/2007 9:36:00 PMNot yet ready for non-IT-expert employee.
239.10/17/2007 9:36:00 PMIncompatibility with too many business critical programs
240.10/17/2007 9:40:00 PMexchance mail ms office
241.10/17/2007 9:42:00 PMOOM killer, poor durability when resources are limited.
242.10/17/2007 9:46:00 PMdon't know much about linux commands.
243.10/17/2007 9:46:00 PMLack of sufficient NLE video editing software. Kdenlive, for example, needs to be focused on. It has excellent potential.
244.10/17/2007 9:50:00 PMlack of/bad experience
245.10/17/2007 9:51:00 PMDont know that much
246.10/17/2007 9:53:00 PMThe RTFM syndrome, Config files that you need to manually edit for every aplication and read pages nad pages of manuals to just do some minor changes, This is an insanly insane big time consuming step and no fun at all to deal with.
247.10/17/2007 9:53:00 PMLackofsupportfordriversforsomeperipheralsweneed(sorry,itdoesn'tallowmetotypespacesinthisbox)
248.10/17/2007 9:55:00 PMLack of support for open-source tools.
249.10/17/2007 9:56:00 PMApplication specific support. Primarily AutoDesk MEP 2008 and upcoming versions. But also our business specific software.
250.10/17/2007 10:03:00 PMConfiguration and software installation
251.10/17/2007 10:04:00 PMPrevious history of using unix and microsoft systems, not a great deal of experience over time with linux
252.10/17/2007 10:10:00 PMNot enough run time as yet.
253.10/17/2007 10:14:00 PMSpecific proprietary software available only for Windows.
254.10/17/2007 10:19:00 PMDoes not always interact with other computers as well as you'd hope
255.10/17/2007 10:19:00 PMNot as simple as Windows. Lack of GUI and wizzards. Don't wan't to go back to 1990 with comandline and obcure cinfig files
256.10/17/2007 10:21:00 PMany os is not complentely secure...
257.10/17/2007 10:21:00 PMwe have specific app, not supported on linux
258.10/17/2007 10:23:00 PMMissing applications.
259.10/17/2007 10:23:00 PMIt lacks software that is required. MYOB equivalent or Quicken, Solution 6 as well.
260.10/17/2007 10:27:00 PMPrivate User, At my work we do use Linux on some computers, but it is neither endorsed or supported by IT department. At home My personal server and 2 Laptops are running Linux already, only reason I don't run it on 2 of my other Desktop PC's are they are used mostly for Gaming.
261.10/17/2007 10:28:00 PMsupport for buisness applications as MS Office, AutoCAD, Microstation
262.10/17/2007 10:29:00 PMProblem w HW compb. User interface A lot of mumbojumbo to get stuff working is NOT accetable. A installation that tells me that this installation i easy.... that's a lot of bull...S
263.10/17/2007 10:35:00 PMLack of specific tools related to business activity
264.10/17/2007 10:36:00 PMLack of technical expertise
265.10/17/2007 10:36:00 PMClient acceptance. Expect pilot deployment to provide positive results
266.10/17/2007 10:39:00 PMLack of knowledge
267.10/17/2007 10:43:00 PMNo performance guarantee
268.10/17/2007 10:46:00 PMThere's no &quot;corporate entity&quot; behind neccessary applications, which makes us unsure about future support and development, and especially we feel that the organizations backing up essential applications are not commercial enough to support our own commercial actitivies. I.e. &quot;they don't understand our needs and motives&quot;
269.10/17/2007 10:50:00 PM1. Nothing is perfect 2. Not sure if i'll be able to find support if something goes wrong.
270.10/17/2007 10:55:00 PMTechnical knowledge on site
271.10/17/2007 11:02:00 PMQuality in video editing for a good price.
272.10/17/2007 11:04:00 PMSupport for games, it's to complex for new users to learn, not supporting tons of applications that's only for windows.
273.10/17/2007 11:05:00 PMLack of personal experience.
274.10/17/2007 11:12:00 PMsenior management
275.10/17/2007 11:12:00 PMAPI stability. Linux is a moving target compared to Solaris without the applications available for Mac OS X. GNU tools with plenty of POSIX compatibility issues.
276.10/17/2007 11:15:00 PMWe need more time to evaluate stability, security, etc
277.10/17/2007 11:17:00 PMbest system integrators does not support Linux in a same level as Solaris. Support quality of Solaris systems is much better.
278.10/17/2007 11:25:00 PMMissing Applications (Professional IDE, DB-Servermanagement, ~Photoshop)
279.10/17/2007 11:28:00 PMLack of tools capable of working with certain legacy documents and other files
280.10/17/2007 11:29:00 PMThe lack of FAST support for the distros I'm interested in.
281.10/17/2007 11:46:00 PMn/a
282.10/17/2007 11:50:00 PMthere are no graphic design/web layout tools such as Adobe Fireworks
283.10/18/2007 12:18:00 AMToo many unverifiable changes in the kernel.
284.10/18/2007 12:21:00 AMVertical scalability for large enterprise applications (e.g, SAP, JDE, and other ERP systems). It's not uncommon to run midrange systems in my environment with 64 or CPUs. Also, I am not sure how Linux would handle I/O load in comparison to HP-UX (our flagship enterprise OS). It's not uncommon in some of our systems to have 12 or more fiber channel I/O paths to our SAN environment (disk management comes to mind).
285.10/18/2007 12:54:00 AMlearning curve.
286.10/18/2007 1:10:00 AMno educated enouf about the linux system
287.10/18/2007 1:19:00 AMIn some aspects the user GUI can still be a bit too confusing for unexperienced Linux users, which increases the risk of unintentional mistakes.
288.10/18/2007 1:36:00 AM- difficult to use for non-technical user
289.10/18/2007 1:38:00 AMLack of good development, filesystem, and performance observation tools like Sun has such as DTrace, ZFS, Sun Studio.
290.10/18/2007 1:44:00 AMFile &amp; directory structure
291.10/18/2007 1:56:00 AMI've been use Linux for many years. I have a lot of experiance with Linux
292.10/18/2007 2:00:00 AMI don't like that a 2.7 branch wasn't created for additions to the kernel. The previous development model seemed to work well, and there have been several problematic 2.6.* kernels, with features bouncing back and forth from working to non-working. For the most part, Debian's package management takes care of this, but it still seems like a potential issue.
293.10/18/2007 2:14:00 AMI tried FreeBSD. Rock solid, no media bias.
294.10/18/2007 2:18:00 AMNot knowing if some critical new application abolutely will not work fex one year down the line, if we move to linux.Then we would have to concider not using this new possibility/feature/etc or taking the mess of moving back
295.10/18/2007 2:18:00 AMDocument and application migration from windows to linux.
296.10/18/2007 2:24:00 AMHaving seen the source code, and, for the majority of them, throwing up in disgust.
297.10/18/2007 2:32:00 AMFragmentation between distributions [ie. Package managers/formats], and continuing flux of distributions.
298.10/18/2007 2:34:00 AMSoftware we are running on Windows do not run on Linux, and people we exchange information with run the software as well. E.g - Quickbooks -- our accountant runs it...
299.10/18/2007 2:54:00 AMlimited amount of technical materials online as reference
300.10/18/2007 3:22:00 AMSystem stability -- too many updates from TUV break desktop.
301.10/18/2007 3:23:00 AMLack of few applications.
302.10/18/2007 3:43:00 AMI've never used it for mission critical applications. And I come across problems on my desktop linux.
303.10/18/2007 3:46:00 AMSteep learning curve for configuration of the system.
304.10/18/2007 3:50:00 AMHaving icons on the new installled desktop with no programs behind them is just a practical joke !
305.10/18/2007 4:15:00 AMThird parties packages are known to break the system, yet, some are needed but not in the main package. Not all configuration (packages and system) are properly documented. A wrong assumption breaks the system.
306.10/18/2007 4:34:00 AMSome stuff will require extra testing to ensure continuous reliability ..
307.10/18/2007 4:50:00 AMWould need to run certain Windows applications via emulation (or WINE) which isn't 100%.
308.10/18/2007 5:27:00 AMLack of driver/kernel support for the new hardware we must support. We can not depend on hardware support being available for some of the product that our customers specify.
309.10/18/2007 5:30:00 AMIncompatibility with industry standard applications and data formats.
310.10/18/2007 5:37:00 AMI have to litle knowledge about it. The main reason is that it can't run windows applications and we have several critical applications that only run in windows (both in house apps and other apps).
311.10/18/2007 5:39:00 AMI can be confident for a few days without these applications that make me connect to network. But just a few days.
312.10/18/2007 5:42:00 AMpast experiences
313.10/18/2007 5:55:00 AMoften kernel regressions often driver regressions excessive power utilization
314.10/18/2007 6:02:00 AMI seem to randomly stumble into functionality that require some 'hacking' before working as expected.
315.10/18/2007 6:03:00 AMI'm a System Administrator.
316.10/18/2007 6:05:00 AMOn the server we have no problems. On the desktop is just not stable enough. A lot of desktop related hardware does not work and certain features does not always work. Also in my experience linux desktop suites are crashing more often than Windows.
317.10/18/2007 6:07:00 AM1) NASA analysis and comparison Win, linux, Solaris: Most stable OS was Solaris, because limited hardware to support at driver level (less work - more testing effort). 2) I see that we have only software packages/projects around the world, collected into one linux distribution. But what about testing, testing projects, testing packages, etc? Yes we have software for testing, but what about testing in bigger plan, like project around some distribution? We cant say that we have Subject, areas, software packages, some units, parts separated tests around one linux distribution, everyone can take a part in that testing, add, test and test specs etc. Maybe only I don't have information about that. I think MS have testing systems and projects around OS. 3) Distributors view : today we use one software found somewhere at internet, tomorrow we use another software, to cover one functionality inside distribution. Things can change through one distribution versions. This is not stability in time. 4) Development and user side view: At MS products we have less changes through Windows 98,ME,2000,XP, Vista. They are more similar through components, than in one linux distribution. Also these components and softwares are more compatible with each other. Also some kind minimalism is living in MS side also MS have collection of products to handle(look at 1, 3 points). MS Sharepoint - compatible with IE, MS Office, MS SQL Server. MS see their products like one product, for users and developers and for work, but in linux world nobody can't or doesn't want to think like &quot;one product&quot;. Linux need analysis to see what parts must be more compatible with each other.
318.10/18/2007 6:14:00 AMLack of necessary applications, uncertainty of development of community apps.
319.10/18/2007 6:16:00 AMThe things really missing is CAD and games. I think i will have a project at my practikal work. My work is in the commune, and its about 200pc:s ( maybe more). However, there is softwares that is impossible to install like CAD programs, and for myself what i am missing...GAMES. But that doesnt do anything. The worst thing, is that the IT people in the commune is incom INCAPABLE of administrate in Linux. Hopefully i can teach them!
320.10/18/2007 6:25:00 AMCritical Goverment systems develops for Windows
321.10/18/2007 6:46:00 AMPoor harsware support in some cases. Lack of specific software.
322.10/18/2007 6:47:00 AMmissing applications
323.10/18/2007 6:53:00 AMdon' t have.
324.10/18/2007 6:55:00 AMUnable to comply.
325.10/18/2007 6:58:00 AMLack of knowledge
326.10/18/2007 7:01:00 AM*bad browser support, especially for bank errands *microsoft and 3rd party software support *hardware support, especially graphic card drivers *lack of excellent quality developer tools for programs and games *lack of excellent quality utility programs from start *better port/transission programs WIN&gt;LINUX *lack of a virtualising program like VM ware *better support for windows to linux to MAC interaction
327.10/18/2007 7:01:00 AMMicrosoft Licensing
328.10/18/2007 7:09:00 AMimproved reliability and certifications
329.10/18/2007 7:18:00 AMNeeded applications not available.
330.10/18/2007 7:20:00 AMLinux's stability
331.10/18/2007 7:21:00 AMHaving &gt;= X% of everything work out of the box where X% is the amount of M$ stuff that works out of the box.
332.10/18/2007 7:27:00 AMERP systems in hungarian languauge
333.10/18/2007 7:29:00 AMPolitical attitude and Windows dependent (without alternatives) proprietary applications.
334.10/18/2007 7:30:00 AMour clients use too much windows &quot;standards&quot;
335.10/18/2007 7:32:00 AMMostly because Linux doesn't run them. Like Adobe Photoshop and other products that is used for marketing and other administrative tasks. There's also that thing about the user experience and the user knowledge on how to operate the system. Linux is moving in the right direction now I think (especially Ubuntu) but it still has a long wau to go before being ready at the desktop. Alot of times it's ready for the servers. But not the desktops...
336.10/18/2007 7:33:00 AMToo many distributions. Distributions contain lot of too weak linked applications...
337.10/18/2007 7:39:00 AMNot enough driver and not good enough Office and message software
338.10/18/2007 7:39:00 AMIt is to hard to maintain for normal users.
339.10/18/2007 7:40:00 AMUnable to recover from a crash without a super expert's (king of geeks!) help. No good hardware support. A lot of beta software in distributions. A lot of tweaked projects in distributions, often with problems while the original packages are OK, for example Ubuntu and MySQL.
340.10/18/2007 7:41:00 AMThe applications i use isn't available in Linux, and if they are they're most likely some obscure half-a**ed port missing half the features included in the &quot;real&quot; program.
341.10/18/2007 7:41:00 AMStill not enough support for Windows only applications through WINE. Cast Software's WYSIWYG is a critical application.
342.10/18/2007 7:41:00 AMGood tools for manage AD
343.10/18/2007 7:44:00 AMknowledge of the system
344.10/18/2007 7:48:00 AMFreeBSD is better choice.
345.10/18/2007 7:54:00 AMI have no confidence in any software.
346.10/18/2007 8:03:00 AMUnable to use mission-critical software for work, namely Deja Vu X (translation environment tool), which unfortunately only works under Windows.
347.10/18/2007 8:07:00 AMSome needed apps don't run on linux platvorm.
348.10/18/2007 8:26:00 AMKernel stability, both in terms of code base and code quality Linux is mostly OK on the server, but not on the Desktop (buggy drivers, graphic cards poorly supported, memory leaks in some GUI apps - including browsers)
349.10/18/2007 8:40:00 AMI'm not sure, some applications have enought stability for this. I thing apache..
350.10/18/2007 8:48:00 AMUnstability of the new (2.6.x) kernel.
351.10/18/2007 8:52:00 AMFull Driver support Reliable desktop applications Easy to use development tools Network security Easy to use package manager 3th party programs are available from package manager Compatible Web browsers with Windows/MacOS More tutorial about using Linux/Development
352.10/18/2007 8:53:00 AMLack of confident that Ubuntu will solve bugs that are critical to me.
353.10/18/2007 8:55:00 AMThis applications absent, also low interests of application developers with needed application functional.
354.10/18/2007 9:07:00 AMTo complicated to install software and update
355.10/18/2007 9:11:00 AMSome special software runs only on the damn Windows.
356.10/18/2007 9:14:00 AM1. Lack of knowledge/education in Linux system administration. 2. Lack of understanding from the higher executives how cost-effective and stable our environment could be. 3. Lack of time to get educated since management thinks &quot;Why would we need that? What we already have is working good enough.&quot;
357.10/18/2007 9:20:00 AMNot enough compatibility in a Windows dominate environment.
358.10/18/2007 9:28:00 AMNot enough time
359.10/18/2007 9:33:00 AMInternal rules of our group.
360.10/18/2007 9:34:00 AMIf our clients use windows/mac, we have to use windows/mac to test our software.
361.10/18/2007 9:37:00 AMnothing :)
362.10/18/2007 9:40:00 AMmatlab 64bit does not run reliably and is even slower than on windows sun jre ships its own versions of xlib which crash with current xcb based X.org availabilty of drivers for high end ati graphic card for 64bit systems (somehow using fglrx slows the whole system by a factor of 100 [disk accesses for example])
363.10/18/2007 9:56:00 AMBecause there are some incompatbilities which need to be sorted out first before I can really have absolute confidence in Linux.
364.10/18/2007 9:57:00 AMcompatibility
365.10/18/2007 10:13:00 AMown linux skills
366.10/18/2007 10:13:00 AMeasier kernel-management/drivers
367.10/18/2007 10:15:00 AMFirst of all, some issues in reading ms office docs by Openoffice.org.
368.10/18/2007 10:46:00 AMBugs
369.10/18/2007 10:53:00 AMI need more specific applications like ERP and BI software. My company use computer to plan its resources so we need to deploy a integrated system with a low cost.
370.10/18/2007 10:59:00 AMcustomers focus on windows applications
371.10/18/2007 11:08:00 AMIt dosen&#180;t deliver.
372.10/18/2007 11:10:00 AMOur target platform is windows and our daily-used tools are mainly win-only. Starting windows apps in wine does not work acceptably
373.10/18/2007 11:12:00 AMdon't know
374.10/18/2007 11:33:00 AM3rd party vendors
375.10/18/2007 11:34:00 AMsome bugs - took to much time for configuring the system - sometimes no compability to windows applications (im- / exporter for mailclients etc.) - missing functions in applications
376.10/18/2007 11:36:00 AMIncompatibility with file formats and missing professional applications
377.10/18/2007 11:47:00 AMinterop with windows legacy
378.10/18/2007 11:49:00 AMnot every software is available for Linux, for instance Citrix VPN and SAP GUI (only java version)
379.10/18/2007 12:16:00 PMHeadqouaters
380.10/18/2007 12:27:00 PMToo time consuming, overly complex, dependency hell, etc...
381.10/18/2007 12:37:00 PMDVD
382.10/18/2007 12:40:00 PMDont know how good i am, i have learned everything myself.
383.10/18/2007 12:40:00 PMThe guaranteed support
384.10/18/2007 12:45:00 PMdon&#180;t have time to learn very much
385.10/18/2007 12:46:00 PMMy knowledge.
386.10/18/2007 12:47:00 PMHebrew support Multimedia support
387.10/18/2007 12:47:00 PMTime to learn Linux and time to learn Application-Development that is running on Linux(UNIX)
388.10/18/2007 12:48:00 PM1. Drivers Support for some devices (Printers, WLAN, ..).
389.10/18/2007 12:49:00 PMnothing
390.10/18/2007 12:49:00 PMno experience in linux for mission-critical applications
391.10/18/2007 12:50:00 PMI don't know what is the long time future of different linux distributions.
392.10/18/2007 12:51:00 PMNot suitable special programs
393.10/18/2007 12:51:00 PMAutomatic Installation of Clients
394.10/18/2007 12:52:00 PMNot having enough experince
395.10/18/2007 12:52:00 PMmissiing compability of comercial software solutions.
396.10/18/2007 12:55:00 PMThird party application support. Integration w/ existing email/calendaring (exchange), or an alternative that's robust enough and supported.
397.10/18/2007 12:57:00 PMReleationship with extern firms
398.10/18/2007 12:58:00 PMNot productized support services and support tools.
399.10/18/2007 1:03:00 PMYou have to have pretty much knowledge about kernel development to be really sure which one of the stable kernels is the most stable kernel.
400.10/18/2007 1:04:00 PMi dont know
401.10/18/2007 1:08:00 PMGAMES only, sorry ;) PS: ehm, wine/cedega is not an option (someday?).
402.10/18/2007 1:12:00 PMLack of professonal and stable programs for CAD work.
403.10/18/2007 1:14:00 PMThey are not integrated enough following so they all follow one standard.
404.10/18/2007 1:21:00 PMOpen source project are not reliable. They may dissapear and you have no counter part.
405.10/18/2007 1:23:00 PMOur mission critical applications do not run on Linux.
406.10/18/2007 1:23:00 PMi just cant get all to work the way i want
407.10/18/2007 1:24:00 PMI have no idea as I'm answering this survey as a computer science student at a university
408.10/18/2007 1:27:00 PMhow to do in trouble shhoting
409.10/18/2007 1:31:00 PMLack of quality (polishness of products, ie. documentation) Lack of security (more hype than reality) Lack of a good and consistent set of administration tools everywhere
410.10/18/2007 1:31:00 PMwell you dont know about the system so much as you do about windows. Also there is not much software what runs without problems in linux.
411.10/18/2007 1:33:00 PMlack of business specific applications. Lack of thorough manuals which also includes usable screen shots, just text based readme files without any screen shots at all are a waste of time and completely useless. Polish : too much applications wear the looks of 1970.
412.10/18/2007 1:39:00 PM- not enough enough knowledge about internal processes of OS
413.10/18/2007 1:42:00 PMNo experiences with large user-numbers
414.10/18/2007 1:48:00 PMproblem of continuity for critical and extrem important applications
415.10/18/2007 1:48:00 PMnot enough knowhow
416.10/18/2007 1:50:00 PMApplication availability in Linux for mission-critical tasks.
417.10/18/2007 1:52:00 PMI did not have the time to learn it.
418.10/18/2007 2:00:00 PMexperience
419.10/18/2007 2:01:00 PMThe big leap for end-users to switch their environment...
420.10/18/2007 2:16:00 PMI need more experience in maintenance.
421.10/18/2007 2:22:00 PMLinux has more features than Windows and it is more secured than windows.
422.10/18/2007 2:23:00 PMhardware driver, used &quot;windows only&quot; software for developing, customers using windows
423.10/18/2007 2:22:00 PMLimited file-exchange options with formats restricted to ms-apps
424.10/18/2007 2:28:00 PMMicrosoft Windows Applications
425.10/18/2007 2:31:00 PMThe problem is that the more than 80% of our clients and servers are running with Microsoft Windows. So the interoperability is better with Windows than with Linux.
426.10/18/2007 2:38:00 PM- No sufficient commercial support - Not enough Kernel support for modern hardware, IPMI, hotswaps etc.
427.10/18/2007 2:38:00 PMis OOS relyable over a long time frame regarding maintaining, availability of code, ...
428.10/18/2007 2:44:00 PMDoubts in support of some of the company internal tools. Getting internal tool providers confident on making support for Linux also.
429.10/18/2007 2:44:00 PMmyself: none my boss: unknown system
430.10/18/2007 2:52:00 PMx
431.10/18/2007 2:56:00 PMi m missing a real outlook open source alternative for that i dont have to configure many services on theier own like mail and callender.
432.10/18/2007 3:05:00 PMdocumentation,training
433.10/18/2007 3:08:00 PMwhat to do in trouble shooting problems ?
434.10/18/2007 3:10:00 PMnothing
435.10/18/2007 3:15:00 PMThere are some problems with the keyboard of the Intel Celeron Computers, because in the Linux Kernel there are so many things with metal.
436.10/18/2007 3:20:00 PMFor some applications more testing and polishing required
437.10/18/2007 3:28:00 PMexperience
438.10/18/2007 3:28:00 PMlack of client Business Software
439.10/18/2007 3:33:00 PM[german] es fehlen einige anwendungen ...
440.10/18/2007 3:34:00 PMThe kompatibility problems wit .exe-files
441.10/18/2007 3:44:00 PMHigh learning curve regarding installations. Complicated file management/security
442.10/18/2007 3:44:00 PMnetwork-security
443.10/18/2007 4:01:00 PMHome grown application support
444.10/18/2007 4:06:00 PMApplication support, technical support, simplicity. users want applications they are familiar with, not to have to learn a Linux &quot;version&quot;. Integration with Microsoft products (MS-SQL, etc). Widespread 3rd party support (some 3rd party applications are critical, but they do not offer Linux versions of their software (ex: UPS Worldship)).
445.10/18/2007 4:07:00 PMMore time to see how the pilot clients work.
446.10/18/2007 4:09:00 PMThere is a large cost associated with becoming skilled enough in Linux to rely on it for critical applications.
447.10/18/2007 4:10:00 PMtoo many bugs
448.10/18/2007 4:11:00 PMExperience with reliable applications
449.10/18/2007 4:12:00 PMOverall quality of available applications. Some are great. Some are... not.
450.10/18/2007 4:12:00 PMno experience
451.10/18/2007 4:22:00 PMNeed to have legacy MS Windows applications run within this environment without devoting several weeks to each setup under Xen or Wine.
452.10/18/2007 4:24:00 PMMissing knowledge about redundant systems
453.10/18/2007 4:24:00 PMMaintenance of applications, updating, installation, etc., still take more of a 'geeky' skill set than we can expect of end users.
454.10/18/2007 4:25:00 PMApps that will only run on Windows/Mac such as MS Publisher and Quicken.
455.10/18/2007 4:25:00 PMpolished and confirmed reliability of mission critical applications.
456.10/18/2007 4:25:00 PMFlash plugin lacks features, no applications for web development that can compare with the proprietary ones, lack of advanced image editing capabilities, no Visio replacement (something thats as polished and feature rich as Visio), IM with support for file transfer, voice and video (Skypes does them but it's not open-source)
457.10/18/2007 4:26:00 PMlack of people awareness of new platform
458.10/18/2007 4:27:00 PMWindows CE sync. Exchange interop. AD interop. some app. only for MS Windows
459.10/18/2007 4:27:00 PM...
460.10/18/2007 4:29:00 PMsome unstable open-source programs. missing alternatives on the proprietary side.
461.10/18/2007 4:42:00 PMThose last few must have applications that I have to keep using Windows such as Dreamweaver and Fireworks etc... Wine will work, but still too many bugs.
462.10/18/2007 4:42:00 PMManchmal habe ich etwas Angst, sie einzusetzen. Aber die Angst nimmt ab, und das Vertrauen zu.
463.10/18/2007 4:48:00 PMLong term experience and broad support for open standards.
464.10/18/2007 4:50:00 PMWell, first the lac of good cad application, such as AutoCAD wich is critical for our job. Second, some problems with vga resolution, and setting it up.
465.10/18/2007 4:52:00 PMTesting with remote users (our customers who are far as we know have not deployed Linux, and likely using Windows)
466.10/18/2007 4:53:00 PMI need more stability and compatibility
467.10/18/2007 4:55:00 PMTo many distributions that vary. To fast change in with distribution that is &quot;cool&quot; right now. To few 365/24/7 support choises for mission critical applications.
468.10/18/2007 4:57:00 PMNot enough hands-on experience in our production environment. On paper everything looks good and should work, but practice is often different.
469.10/18/2007 5:01:00 PMPrior experience with deploying Linux (LAMP) for a mission-critical application used by state governemnt agencies.
470.10/18/2007 5:02:00 PMRealtime Linux for Interbus
471.10/18/2007 5:03:00 PMmore user general-purpose applications (Palm-Desktop, MS-Office, Photoshop, Skype, Canon Digital-camera-suite, HP printers drivers, Graphic adapters drivers, Backup SW (user friendly), xplorer2 like file manager, WebCam drivers etc.
472.10/18/2007 5:07:00 PMLots of problems with quality, especially with groupware clients. You can find masses of bugs in PIMs, but also configuration errors in Standard Config of OOo or something else so you have to tripplecheck everything - this works most times better with MS products.
473.10/18/2007 5:10:00 PMSpecify what you mean by mission-critical application
474.10/18/2007 5:12:00 PM- using windows specific software (Visual Studio, MS Office...) because business partner only working with that
475.10/18/2007 5:13:00 PMWe use Microsoft NetMeeting a lot. We've been unable to find an equivilent product in Linux. Also, the Business uses MS Access and MS Visio. Getting compatibility between these tools and their open source equivilents is difficult. Same with MS Project
476.10/18/2007 5:12:00 PMI don't think I have the knowlegde for using mission-critical applications.
477.10/18/2007 5:17:00 PMlack of unity. packages from strangers, unmanaged. Cowboy-style. go here for coreutils, go there for rsync, get screen over there. Don't mind the funky url and the whois that comes back to some unknown registar in russia.
478.10/18/2007 5:18:00 PMThere is just enough difference in end-user experience that users will generally defer to using what's more comfortable for them (i.e. Windows), and the lack of availability of Linux-native Windows apps (Office suite, in particular, which is available for Mac OS X) is often a dealbreaker
479.10/18/2007 5:21:00 PMGUIs slow KDE (konqueror), bad start menu no icq no movie maker bad hardware support:WLAN,printers,webcams(with skype)
480.10/18/2007 5:25:00 PMToo many changes occurring too rapidly. Tired of a 'new release' coming out every 6 weeks.
481.10/18/2007 5:27:00 PMthat other components of these apps are not, and may be never made compatible or interoperable with our Linux systems
482.10/18/2007 5:27:00 PMI do.
483.10/18/2007 5:32:00 PM1.Many proprietary application are based on .NET and they do not run on Linux boxes. 2.When clients download software most of the time they have no idea where the files have been installed and there are no icons of the software in the desktop or in the application folder such they are used to see in windows.
484.10/18/2007 5:32:00 PMLack of graphical tools, lack of business critical applications, linux developers lack of understanding end users.
485.10/18/2007 5:41:00 PMeducation software is in many cases onyl windows native avalible. they didn't convert to linux and the software didn't run always with wine.
486.10/18/2007 5:46:00 PMWindows AD connection E-Token's with OpenVPN OpenOffice Migration Tools OpenOffice trainings Laptop Support, offline users Closed driver Support, NVIDIA
487.10/18/2007 5:47:00 PMCom
488.10/18/2007 5:48:00 PMTime and money. Cause can't stop running projects. Nobody has time to backup and install any desktop.
489.10/18/2007 5:53:00 PMSupport for critical windows applications on Linux Desktop
490.10/18/2007 5:55:00 PMlack of productivity tools and Windows integration
491.10/18/2007 6:00:00 PMThe user interface. The desktop environment needs to be more polished. If end users are going to have to stare at the desktop environment all day it should look like a polished product ready for production.
492.10/18/2007 6:01:00 PMHardware support, applications, interoperability...
493.10/18/2007 6:02:00 PMEase of use, application availability &amp; those that are available are not very usable. Inclusion of support cost affects the total cost of ownership badly.
494.10/18/2007 6:03:00 PMThe fact that my preferred distribution, Ubuntu, is not certified for Lotus Notes &amp; Domino as RedHat and SuSE are.
495.10/18/2007 6:05:00 PMYour survey does not take into consideration the home user. Our main problem is the school districts that are absolutely tethered to MS. My wife is averse to using anything 'different'. I use Solaris on my personal machine. I had RH set up as a dual boot last year. It came in handy when the MS side developed a viral problem (kids) The differences in some of the open source applications e.g. OOffice, Star Office, and MS Word are seen as insurmountable obstacles. The school cries about money, but they refuse to use something that is substantially lower in cost. They don't teach computing, they teach MS-centric user skills.
496.10/18/2007 6:07:00 PMBecause most of my colleagues dont want to use Linux.
497.10/18/2007 6:07:00 PMClient applications both commercial and 'home grown'. High end, commercial CAD and Technical Illustrions tools are non-existant on linux.
498.10/18/2007 6:09:00 PMGood development tools to redevelop our Windows application to a browser based application that is equally as responsive.
499.10/18/2007 6:13:00 PMlack of staff training
500.10/18/2007 6:15:00 PMThe desktop is still flaky. Some features like switch screen resolution just don't work that well and can leave you in an unusable state unless you know what you're doing.
501.10/18/2007 6:15:00 PMMostly is that companies want to point a finger at someone, anyone. I have found this at mine when I proposed a LAMP server running MediaWiki. The concept of in-house support is something they don't want to deal with much, so it can cause issues with 3rd party software.
502.10/18/2007 6:15:00 PMServer-side web-based apps are great. User-side apps. are lacking ease of use and functionality. GUI Desktops often are cluttered with useless non functioning or flawed and uncompleted apps. Many distributions require extra donwloads to add needed functionality. They are often not ready to get started right away. A good Contact Manager is missing and synchronization tools for MS Outlook calaendar and contact data are not available as a standard. Thunderbird Users will find that forwards to MS Outlook users will render their forwards useless. A good desktop should also have all standard Audio and Video as well as IM apps available and not require the user to often download additional bits and pieces. Same applies for the browser plugins that often, even when downloaded require an IT admin to make things work. I have worked with LINUX Servers and Desktops for many years and there are few distributions that have an Out-of-the Box desktop that functions as well as APPLE or XP (never mind the Viri that you acquire with any MS system or even VISTA)out of the BOX. Gamers also would experience a serious lack except for the avid IT enthusiast like my son who uses WINE to play some of his Games. Novell who acquired SuSE has also not lived up to expectations and the annual licensing fees as well as the drop of on-line upgrades for distributions such as v. 9.2 are also not helpful and drive users away from their distributions changing to CENTOS, GENTOO (on the server side) or Ubuntu on the dektop side. Mandriva (if you have the coin for joining the Club) at least works even with their Wireless settings (SuSE is more tricky and sometimes oes on and off). So there: Follow Steve Jobs approach and make the whole desktop userfriendly, give people the tools the need for entertainement and production, be at the forefront of web integration and have a tool that allows to emulate maybe WIndows for some important Windows applications to run on LINUX and make it an integral part of a distro and users will start to like it and lobby manufacturers to offer pre-installed desktops and laptops that work in a user friendly way as most users are non-tekkies.
503.10/18/2007 6:16:00 PMLack of WINE support for our major (Windows only) program and lack of easy printer support.
504.10/18/2007 6:17:00 PMThe hardware capability for graphics and wireless wlan-cards.
505.10/18/2007 6:24:00 PMDepends on applications. Operating System, Webserver, Firewall, Desktop, Browser and many more are great, much better than Windows! Open Office is sufficiant for many tasks (definitly not for all), but it's far from beeing perfect. Gimp is nice, but often Photoshop is still required. ...
506.10/18/2007 6:26:00 PMLack of applications that can be found for Microsoft windows.
507.10/18/2007 6:39:00 PMLack of support
508.10/18/2007 6:50:00 PM1. The lack of universally accepted apps (Save for Open Office, but that lacks something like Visio) 2. Lack of Linux ports of existing commercial apps (eg. Quicken products, Photoshop, Visio, etc.) 3. Lack of universal installation and usability scheme/method 4. The wide-sread abandonment of open source projects (Apps are here today, gone tomorrow)
509.10/18/2007 6:54:00 PMDifficult to find software by name. Lots of software out there, but which ones do what I want?
510.10/18/2007 6:54:00 PMWindows is more familiar to use.
511.10/18/2007 7:09:00 PMNot sure of what programs that are the best choice and also not sure of that it will work as planned.
512.10/18/2007 7:11:00 PMConsistent video/audio playback, specific church applications, poor desktop publishing.
513.10/18/2007 7:15:00 PMThere are way too many regressions between different versions of the kernel in particular, but not limited to it.
514.10/18/2007 7:17:00 PMdevelopment tools management tools
515.10/18/2007 7:26:00 PMTechnical support/availability.
516.10/18/2007 7:27:00 PMApplications not mature but on good way
517.10/18/2007 7:32:00 PM1. not enough Microsoft compatible applications available 2. Desktop and parameter settings too difficult, compared to Windows 3. Application installations too difficult, if no install manager present, again compared to Windows
518.10/18/2007 7:38:00 PMOffice suite not as feature rich or robust as on Windows
519.10/18/2007 7:43:00 PMSome questions remain on interoperability with other OSes. These are more those other OSes' faults. Also, none of our customers are using Linux on their desktops yet.
520.10/18/2007 7:46:00 PMWhat I could understand I really liked but my main drawback, and the reason that I reloaded Windows, was that I just could not figure out how to make the Linux box the fileserver for the network and have it see the window's boxes and have them see it and have all of them be able to 'talk' to each other and send files back and forth reliably. I tried a Live CD of Suse and it was great - it automatically configured things so that my network was just there -- BUT when I did the install, all that wonderful automatic config wizbang stuff disappeared and it was a nightmare trying to figure things out. So back to Windows for now.
521.10/18/2007 8:01:00 PMUpgrades that break systems. Variable quality of documentation. Lack of standardisation, e.g. some Informix releases won't run on Debian derivatives because of Debian libpthreads differs from RH and others - either one must be non-standard or else the standard isn't rigorous. Lack of user focus/general dumbness - e.g. Suse 10.2, not only releasing it with a known bug in online update relying, presumably, on an online update to fix it but also didn't install wireless modules out of the box although it installed wireless applets and also tried to run the internet connection tests on servers that weren't there; e.g. KDE CUPS setup probes for printer, finds it, obtains user acknowledgement and then requires user to select printer from vendor/model dialogue - just two out of many.
522.10/18/2007 8:08:00 PMMany applications don't work out of the
523.10/18/2007 8:14:00 PMA unified desktop, all available application working across all desktops.
524.10/18/2007 8:17:00 PMcommunication and integration problems with already existing windows services
525.10/18/2007 8:17:00 PMsame as in windows (well, not the same...) won't do it ourself, would ask a third person.
526.10/18/2007 8:23:00 PMsome things just don&#180;t work
527.10/18/2007 8:45:00 PMunreliable software (bugs, faulty updates) and the lack of proper integration
528.10/18/2007 8:47:00 PM1 click installation programs for any *nix easy way to map to network shares no way easily run favorite Windows apps, wine and crossover are not viable solutions
529.10/18/2007 8:50:00 PMUsers are not typically familiar with Linux. They won't be until it is more integrated in their day-to-day work.
530.10/18/2007 8:52:00 PMI have no mission-critical applications for the moment.
531.10/18/2007 9:15:00 PMLack of workstation central management tools for the enterprise.
532.10/18/2007 9:31:00 PMVarious incompatibilities and the general untrustworthiness of applications.
533.10/18/2007 9:36:00 PMAcceptance of Linux as a strategic Platform
534.10/18/2007 9:39:00 PMnot enough suitable software
535.10/18/2007 9:40:00 PMNot enough people with enough knowledge to handle critical situations
536.10/18/2007 9:44:00 PMMissing proffesionals application
537.10/18/2007 9:53:00 PMonly very technical developers can use, no audio, no group calendar...must have outlook clone on linux before we can go to general population, all integrated mail/calendar products are terrible on linux
538.10/18/2007 9:59:00 PMA break on the Microsoft strangle hold over the company (corporate policy &amp; experience unix/linux adminstrators). Higher demand from our customers for platforms other than MS. (scientific instruments)
539.10/18/2007 10:08:00 PMLack of support, some unrefined systems
540.10/18/2007 10:17:00 PMdoubt in missing quality assurance / security audits / code coverrage/reviewing
541.10/18/2007 10:23:00 PMnot all needed applications availabe, mixing systems are not the to work then on a critical project
542.10/18/2007 10:46:00 PMsecurity of data
543.10/18/2007 11:13:00 PMwe don't have absolutly mission-critical appls
544.10/18/2007 11:23:00 PMPackaged applications not being available in the market.
545.10/18/2007 11:35:00 PMProbably ease of use for end-users. We need to exchange data with other companies, reading and writing files in mostly Microsoft formats. For me personally, I would love to have a great Entity Relationship diagramming tool, ala Dezign for Databases in the Windows world, on the linux platform.
546.10/18/2007 11:43:00 PMIM voice/video chat, music editing, video editing.
547.10/18/2007 11:59:00 PMNot supporting some important programs.
548.10/19/2007 12:02:00 AMWindows compatibility like ADS, etc...
549.10/19/2007 12:06:00 AMSecure file creation, copy, paste facility that would be comfortable to those familiar with Windows (not requiring su) Stable, full-featured, GUI desktop
550.10/19/2007 12:45:00 AMInternet Explorer is critical for our software (hopefully, will not be in next version)
551.10/19/2007 12:47:00 AMInteroperabilty and the knowledge that all applications will run on the Linux environment.
552.10/19/2007 12:50:00 AMProprietary application support
553.10/19/2007 12:54:00 AMMy skill level in maintaining a network with windows machines. I a single person company. I still need to rely heavily on others for admin.
554.10/19/2007 1:08:00 AMKnowing key applications are not available. Knowing that staff are not familiar with the platform.
555.10/19/2007 1:16:00 AMWhat keeps me from using Linux as my only OS is one part it beeing a spread-out project. Beeing so, I take it less seriously than other software, that can show a strong image towards the world. Even if the software is great, I still look at it more suspiciously, and as long as the situation is as it's now - me and a lot of others will. And that's talking about both quality of the product and support. Number two: Windows works great for me. It does for me exactly what I want it to do. There's no hiccups, despite what so called &quot;trolls&quot; may say, and the amount of software for the OS is huge, for obvious reasons. I use WinXP, by the way. So what's keeping me from switching is in effect.. that there's no real reason. Windows supports all my needs, and Linux does not. If Linux had support for all the programs that Windows did - or preferably more, then I'd be more inclined to switch. And Linux needs a strong company to promote it's product. The Ubuntu foundation with it's 3d desktop and what not isn't enough to make Maggie, 45 think &quot;Oh! Why am I'm not using that OS!&quot;, wich is needed to get momentum to the whole 'cause'. Maybe some already crazed IT 'freaks' will switch, but that's perhaps 0.5% of the users. /end
556.10/19/2007 1:30:00 AMLack of consistency between releases, never mind different distros. It is an absolute waste of my enterprise's time and money when we have to modify working scripts because some brightspark has decided that the networking config files should be moved to a different directory. We are re-evaluating Solaris as the Server OS standard. I often feel that Linux is produced by overgrown teenagers that haven't a clue when it comes to a CIO's responsibility or accountability. It's fine to harp on about how OpenOffice can do everything that MS Office can, but try sending an ODF document to an executive at a different company (one that uses Windows exclusively) to discover how quickly Office is re-installed (along with its OS) on the laptops of the sales and consulting personnel. When I received my new Thinkpad, it had Vista installed. I opted to install Linux as well, since this particular model was certified to run SuSe. It installed, and crashed as soon as I put it into suspend. Oh, and the wireless didn't work, and the video drivers defaulted to VESA because the latest nVidia Linux drivers didn't yet support the 1920x1200 LCD screen, and I could go on, and on. My 16 year-old daughter refuses to use Linux because she couldn't be bothered learning a different set of tools - all she needs is MSN, a browser with good plugin support and iTunes. She is part of the Net Generation - if you can't win her over, the cause is lost (btw, she wants a Mac).
557.10/19/2007 1:33:00 AM1) Stability of open-source applications, many of them have a lot of bugs that, though some are rapidly fixed, keep crashing the software while doing something important. 2) Quality drivers. Non-official drivers usually support only a subset of the full capabilities of hardware devices, and even official ones (like the Intel graphics driver, for instance) have a lot of annoying bugs.
558.10/19/2007 1:39:00 AMalways something crucial not yet working. e.g. sound, exchange compatibility, grammar check, etc
559.10/19/2007 2:56:00 AMLack of industry-specific (music/audio production) applications of sufficient quality and/or completeness.
560.10/19/2007 2:58:00 AMdriver support
561.10/19/2007 3:10:00 AMCrystal Reports requiring Active-X plug-ins.
562.10/19/2007 3:19:00 AM- security - open
563.10/19/2007 4:02:00 AMCross Platform compatibility issues
564.10/19/2007 4:20:00 AMBecause I don't have any mission-critical applications.
565.10/19/2007 4:26:00 AMNot all applications are available, the existing solutions may lack features of their Windows pendants - effectively making them a &quot;worse choice&quot;.
566.10/19/2007 4:50:00 AMLack of training, but we're working on it.
567.10/19/2007 5:16:00 AMDriver support. Application support. Not all drivers are supported. Not all applications are available. And the ones that are available aren't complete.
568.10/19/2007 5:34:00 AMlinux doesn't have extreme support as windows has. we have to search the forums and mailing list and solve ourselves
569.10/19/2007 5:38:00 AMI have more confidence in Linux than Windows but windows is easyier to use with it's set up wizards
570.10/19/2007 5:46:00 AMI haven't seen any organisation around and say, OK if they made it then we can also.
571.10/19/2007 5:47:00 AMApplications compatiblity
572.10/19/2007 6:00:00 AMHigher Management
573.10/19/2007 6:00:00 AMMissing apps.
574.10/19/2007 6:07:00 AMThe Users (Teacher and pupils)
575.10/19/2007 6:20:00 AMuser friendlynes
576.10/19/2007 6:20:00 AMTraining, Documentation, and Support.
577.10/19/2007 6:25:00 AMLinux is not stable. Linux filesystems are very fault-prone
578.10/19/2007 6:26:00 AMThey don't exist for linux yet, and if developed, will have the usual teething problems until a mature (possibly version 2.0) is developed.
579.10/19/2007 6:32:00 AMProprietary technologies/solutions already adopted that do not not cater for linux in any way. Technologies that have proprietary components that do not work well (if at all) with linux. Lack of certain 64-bit functionality to match 32-bit counterparts (e.g browser plugins)
580.10/19/2007 6:32:00 AMDependency issues: Many of the ongoing oss projects get abandoned which puts a big question on some of the necessary middlewares Hardware incompatibility: most of the industry specific hardware do not support linux
581.10/19/2007 6:42:00 AMOffice suite compatibility with MSOfice.
582.10/19/2007 6:47:00 AMProblems with hardware, especially scanners and digicams.
583.10/19/2007 6:59:00 AMNo support for - our ERP sytem - thermotransfer printer drivers - our database driven labeling software - our dispatch system - business specific applications
584.10/19/2007 7:05:00 AMno facility for comparing my work with others
585.10/19/2007 7:06:00 AMThird Party Support
586.10/19/2007 7:24:00 AM- Special localization (like missing en_fi) - existing datafiles are in format that is not supported by linux programs so well (like autocad, photoshop, photoimpact)
587.10/19/2007 7:25:00 AMNot enough experience.
588.10/19/2007 7:27:00 AMLack of translation software available
589.10/19/2007 7:30:00 AMI still don't know it enough
590.10/19/2007 7:35:00 AMNon-standard email system and needs for official VPN and WLAN support. Some language issues, too, especially for the official distro.
591.10/19/2007 7:37:00 AMMicrosoft Visual Foxpro Microsoft Dynamix NV
592.10/19/2007 7:39:00 AMOffering of business applications like CRM, ERP, BI
593.10/19/2007 7:44:00 AMlack of applications (ALL Adobe products, music notation software, proper sound editing)
594.10/19/2007 7:45:00 AMMy experience grade, and mostly office cross-platform document portability
595.10/19/2007 7:46:00 AMI'm not the C.E.O. so I'm pretty stuck to proprietary OS at work, yust as anyone else... besides I realize that less tech-savy people in the company would disagree with my preferences.
596.10/19/2007 7:58:00 AMThe overwhelming number of people who think that a system is not good if it doesn't have a microsoft label on it!
597.10/19/2007 8:10:00 AMknowledge
598.10/19/2007 8:11:00 AMMy Knowledge of Linux is Beginner to Intermediate.
599.10/19/2007 8:15:00 AMCompatibility to hardware
600.10/19/2007 8:20:00 AMMissing doc's about HA and cluster technologies.
601.10/19/2007 8:21:00 AMusers
602.10/19/2007 8:22:00 AM- a good application like winphone to send/receive fax from us robotics fax modem - a good cad program like autocad - good programs to video editing like adobe premiere
603.10/19/2007 8:22:00 AMdrivers
604.10/19/2007 8:31:00 AMtime. I don't have much time to testi it enough. Usually at work I have to use Windows, in this way I can't test Linux for mission-critical applications
605.10/19/2007 8:42:00 AMNot enough knowledge of disaster recovering
606.10/19/2007 9:36:00 AMProprietary software needed to get hardware working properly i.e. proprietary video card drivers
607.10/19/2007 9:36:00 AMexperience
608.10/19/2007 9:56:00 AMknoledge, graphical application to manage services and configuration
609.10/19/2007 10:02:00 AMCommon know-how about linux is still too low in organization
610.10/19/2007 10:24:00 AMcompatibility with closed format (not a linux's fault)
611.10/19/2007 10:28:00 AMApplication instability, not enough knowledge to fully recover from crashes.
612.10/19/2007 10:35:00 AMLack of computing education. I may encounter severe problems and be in need of the support of the community. Lack of knowledge never stopped me: it only slowed me down.
613.10/19/2007 10:47:00 AMThe sometimes not absolute stability.
614.10/19/2007 10:47:00 AMI'm only a Student ;). Probably the experience.
615.10/19/2007 10:56:00 AMMissing of application (Layout, Photo editing), often missing manuals for critical application
616.10/19/2007 11:17:00 AMIT department staff not well versed. Also, no intention to be leading adopter of any new technologies, prefer being a lag follower. So unless a significant number of IT staff in our industry adopt Linux, we most likely wouldn't.
617.10/19/2007 11:19:00 AMMany of our Customers use e.g. MS Office. And Openoffice is not 100% compatible. And an secound thing is, that we use very much Office macros. And this macros do not work unter OO.
618.10/19/2007 11:20:00 AMNeed more time to test all applications and other IT projects.
619.10/19/2007 11:26:00 AMI don't have absolute confidence in any kind of software product, and my experience shows that lack of the requirement of market success makes much free software unpolished - unless I try some new tool with a certain configuration I won't even assume that it will run 'out of the box'.
620.10/19/2007 11:27:00 AMsupport
621.10/19/2007 11:42:00 AMCRM Software only for Windows
622.10/19/2007 11:53:00 AMdistributor support
623.10/19/2007 11:57:00 AMApllications which we use are write only for Win32.
624.10/19/2007 11:58:00 AMIt's my problem, I need to study more.
625.10/19/2007 12:28:00 PMExperience
626.10/19/2007 12:39:00 PMease of use
627.10/19/2007 12:39:00 PMApplications made exclusively for windows can be a problem when they can't be used to their full potiential with wine.
628.10/19/2007 12:39:00 PMapplication support and system administrators
629.10/19/2007 12:47:00 PMI have never do it :D
630.10/19/2007 12:59:00 PMWe don&#180;t like Linus. Why destroy something working?
631.10/19/2007 1:02:00 PMLocal support and lack of drivers.
632.10/19/2007 1:18:00 PMKnowhow, confidence
633.10/19/2007 1:22:00 PMI haven't enough experience.
634.10/19/2007 1:23:00 PMMost of the software is written for Wind*ws!
635.10/19/2007 1:33:00 PMNeed more driver support. i.e. scanners More support for multimedia (codecs). Better integration on multimedia applications.
636.10/19/2007 1:40:00 PMMissing Know-How and missing test
637.10/19/2007 1:58:00 PMbluetooth support ati drivers to complex to install ntfs read/write support complex to install
638.10/19/2007 2:03:00 PMhav
639.10/19/2007 2:19:00 PMDepends on the mission
640.10/19/2007 2:20:00 PMNot enough experience
641.10/19/2007 2:28:00 PMI have any mission critical applications.
642.10/19/2007 2:32:00 PM-
643.10/19/2007 2:40:00 PMLack of hardware drivers for all types of hardware.
644.10/19/2007 2:42:00 PMLack of support.
645.10/19/2007 2:49:00 PMApps like Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop are not running perfectly in wine.
646.10/19/2007 3:17:00 PMNothing special. I just want to know the application, the type of mission-critical-ness, and the proposed solution before I decide to trust in it. And linux is still normal software, and (big) software systems (nowadays) always have their problems.
647.10/19/2007 3:21:00 PMOffice productivity on par with MS Office
648.10/19/2007 3:25:00 PMNothing really!
649.10/19/2007 3:31:00 PMVPN connection to my workplace. Printing problems. Applications for designers (Adobe).
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