{"id":146,"date":"2007-08-08T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2007-08-08T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T13:30:55","slug":"20070808-a-cios-view-of-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/08\/20070808-a-cios-view-of-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/08\/08  A CIO\u2019s View of Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another Story from Slashdot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mlevinson@cxo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">onehitwonder<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company&#8217;s computers. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/41140\/Windows_vs._Linux_vs._OS_X\">CIO.com&#8217;s initial writeup<\/a> on Halamka&#8217;s experiences; we discussed their <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/linux\/07\/06\/23\/2057203.shtml?tid=143\">followup article on SUSE<\/a>. Now CIO is running a writeup on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/print\/126702\">Halamka&#8217;s take on Ubuntu<\/a> and how it stacks up against Novell SUSE 10, RHEL, Fedora, XP, and Mac OS X, in a life-and-death business environment.&#8221;<\/em> For the impatient, here&#8217;s Halamka&#8217;s conclusion: &#8220;A balanced approach of Windows for the niche business application user, Macs for the graphic artists\/researchers, SUSE for enterprise kiosks\/thin clients, and Ubuntu for power users seems like the sweet spot for 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another Story from Slashdot: onehitwonder writes &#8220;Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company&#8217;s computers. Here is CIO.com&#8217;s initial writeup on Halamka&#8217;s experiences; we discussed their followup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}