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SAN FRANCISCO - Those rare animals at Sun using rival Microsoft's Windows operating system have edged closer to extinction, as the company's head of operating systems has decided the time is right to live the lifestyle and move to Linux.
John Loiacono, vice president of operating platforms at Sun, was spotted using Windows on his corporate laptop last month here at the Sun Network conference. Since that time, Loiacono has moved to Linux on both his work and home computers, as part of a companywide program to abandon Windows altogether within Sun. With Sun's operating system chief coming up to speed on Linux, the company can bolster its claims that the open source operating system’s time as a desktop for big business may have come.
"Like everything in life, you usually don't cut over from one thing right to another," Loiacono said. "I am doing the transition process right now."
Loiacono went out and purchased Red Hat's version of Linux and created a dual-boot system that allows him to run either Linux or Windows. Most top executives, he said, only need access to an e-mail application, a calendar, a Web browser and a productivity suite, and Linux can provide these tools on par with Windows. Most of these software packages can be accessed via a Web-based interface. This may make it easier for top executives to switch to Linux, in contrast to developers or other employees who depend on specific Windows-based desktop applications to do their job, Loiacono said.
Loiacono's change of heart mimics one currently underway by Sun to embrace Linux alongside its own Solaris operating system. The company had long pushed its customers to use Solaris on everything from small workstations to large servers. Sun, however, changed its course in August, introducing a low-end Linux server, and then went further in September by announcing a Linux desktop computer designed for large businesses.
Sun has come out with its own version of Linux aptly named Sun Linux for both the server and the desktop computer. This software, coupled with its StarOffice productivity suite that can open and allow changes to Microsoft Office files, and the open source Mozilla Web browser has made Linux a viable choice for executives, Loiacono said.
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