Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[Jamon Camisso]

JoeHill wrote:
> Robert Brockway wrote: 
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Asaf Maruf wrote:
>>
>>> The unfortunate result is that Linux is unable to get introduced in the
>>> enterprise especially the SME sector.  
>> Unable to be introduced?  Linux has been widely deployed in large 
>> companies even long before it became popular with the IT press.  I have 
>> personal knowledge of large corporations relying on Linux as far back as 
>> 1995.  Since about 2000 it's popularity has just exploded.  Linux is 
>> everywhere.
>>
>> Management are often quite happy to bring in consultants.  That role has 
>> been a big part of my day job for 10+ years.
> 
> ...but you won't be reading that on Digg, and so the amateur FOSS pundits will
> never see it. Thank you for that dose of reality :-)

Regardless though, what they do see is Ubuntu & Linux. In some instances 
"no press is bad press" holds true (though with the Internet there's an 
easily accessed record). Give it a day or two more and it'll be all but 
forgotten.

Jamon
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