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By standardisation I believe my mate means there is no real structure to the way the Linux market rolls-out its software. For instance, because of the vigorous competition in the Microsoft based market, vendors go through a tight software development method, i.e. Business Planning, Market Analysis then development hence the software application tends to be better quality to compete in the software market with the exception of a few specialised applications like servers etc. For the home user on the other hand, tight development methodologies haven’t been put into practice hence you get developers flushing the application scene with an introductory application whatever it is which undergoes a few extra years of development by the community. Also seamless integration is also another problem for the Linux community since Microsoft based applications often provide seamless integration into their existing solutions such as office etc, Linux is lagging in that region.
The bottom line is, for the commercial industry, Linux may or may not be suitable, if it is, they often have the in-house capabilities to re-engineer open source applications to align with their business functions. For home users though, Linux has still got a long way to go, since as my mate mentioned it’s a free-for-all situation and we are lumped with what we get by the community.
I prefer windows purely because it has the software I need. It also crashes a lot less than Linux applications.
I do wish that someone continues this thread so that I can test out my masters degree knowledge in this subject.
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