Hi, everyone,
At last night's Triangle LinuxChix meeting, Michelle Leonard of Inovision
did a presentation on her company's image analysis software, which they
recently released for Linux. It had previously been an SGI/IRIX product,
and moving to Linux offered lower cost to their customers and improved
performance.
The part of her presentation that blew me away was a comparison with a
competing Windows product. The best performance under Windows was one image
analyzed every 10 seconds. The performance of the Linux product was 80
images per second. (The IRIX version on an O2 delivers 30 images per
second, BTW.) I realize that is an apples to oranges comparison, but the
difference is still rather amazing, if not staggering, and I understand her
company has been awfully busy successfully selling this :)
The question that begs to be asked is pretty obvious: if Linux performance
is really incredibly better than Windows (and it often is), if stability is
so much better, if cost is so much lower, how do we get corporate America to
buy in? How do we get folks to use it at home? How do we get the word out
and *show* people that we have something really special here in terms they
can understand and accept?
I'd love to hear different thoughts on this. Getting more women into the
Linux community is really part of a greater problem: getting real
mainstream acceptance.
Regards,
Caity
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