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> I guess the more alarming trend is how a lot of tech companies and governments are picking up LTS Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows XP workstations they hav

by barista 13y ago

> I guess the more alarming trend is how a lot of tech companies and governments are picking up LTS Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows XP workstations they have had for 10+ years. I have friends who work in the systems integration space and from their experience they don't see an evidence of this. Was there a number reported anywhere that makes you say this?

zanny 13y ago
The German government and Amazon mainly. Germany has been phasing out at various levels of bureaucracy XP for Ubuntu, and Amazon uses it a lot now.
- barista 13y ago
  ummm didn't they abandon that and moved back to Windows finally? http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/german-open-source-experiment-things-not-going-plan http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/german-open-source-exper... Don't know about Amazon but its just a small software company that is known to be stingy to its own people
  - xxpor 13y ago
    >Amazon >small You're kidding me, right?
    - barista 13y ago
      In this context? No. PC sales per year a few hundred million. Amazon total headcount 100K (including warehouse workers) In case you didn't bother to read the parent comment, the user was referring to Amazon forcing its users to install Linux instead of Windows.