Today, IT managers are debating whether to suffer the slings and arrows of proprietary operating systems or to take arms against them and embrace open-source software. The answer may seem obvious to Linux loyalists. But most IT managers aren't ready to act just yet. The time is not yet right to convert most corporate desktop environments from Windows to Linux. Operating system wars have been going on for more than 30 years.
Most organizations can dig up the skulls of dead operating systems in data center graveyards.
I knew it well, and many others did, too. It's fast, sleek, thin and limber. But the earlier operating systems grew fat with all the functions that were demanded by the world. We can hope that Linux will stay thin, but the minute it becomes the be-all operating system, it will likely get plump quickly. But Linux may have advantages that other operating systems lacked.