Geoff Perlman is CEO of REAL Software, Inc. A seasoned software professional, Geoff believes that programming tools should be easy to use, powerful, and provide people with the freedom to create whatever software they need for the platforms they care about. Before founding REAL Software, Geoff taught thousands of people to create software through training courses and a book he wrote for Sybex.
Linux is gaining ground in the enterprise. It began on the server, but more
and more Linux is being tested and deployed on the desktop. Linux solutions
for typical business productivity applications, including Evolution, Mozilla,
and OpenOffice, are available and included with most Linux distributions.
This availability of cost-effective hardware, reliable Linux distributions,
and general-purpose business productivity applications is helping to drive
Linux to the desktop, that is, except in situations where enterprise
applications are custom-developed in Visual Basic, and currently run only on
Windows.
Because enterprises generally don't migrate all of their systems to Linux at
once, companies should seek solutions that port Visual Basic applications to
Linux and continue to support Windows as well. They should also enable their
developers to use a familiar developm... (more)
Geoff Perlman is CEO of REAL Software, Inc. A seasoned software professional, Geoff believes that programming tools should be easy to use, powerful, and provide people with the freedom to create whatever software they need for the platforms they care about. Before founding REAL Software, Geoff taught thousands of people to create software through training courses and a book he wrote for Sybex.
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