Companies who choose open source software over Windows for their enterprise resource planning tend to be surprised by the absence of crashes, according to users and vendors
A company that migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux on the desktop has praised the open source operating system’s stability.
Günter Stoverock, the data processing manager at German import company Heinz Tröber, said on Thursday his firm had decided against running its ERP software on Windows as it considered it less stable than the open source alternative.
Open Source Alternatives: Weighing the Pros and Cons
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004“IE has vulnerabilities that cannot be ignored, but with these vulnerabilities come fixes,” notes Jupiter Research senior analyst Joe Wilcox. “If you fix the browser enough, it becomes more secure. So whether one is more vulnerable or not we will only see over time.”
Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
Open source alternatives only make sense “when workers are doing really simple stuff and don’t actually need all the functionality of a complex software suite, such as Microsoft Office, said Gartner research analyst Mark Driver.
“But all too often a lot of the more complex documents don’t convert, and there are times when 98 percent compatibility is just not good enough — so you have to be careful,” Driver told NewsFactor.
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