ozmanjusri's Journal: 90% of IT professionals don't want Vista

A survey by King Research has found that Ninety percent of IT professionals have concerns using Vista, with compatibility, stability and cost being their key reasons.

Interestingly, forty four percent of companies surveyed are considering switching to non-Windows operating systems, and nine percent of those have already started moving to their selected alternative.

"The concerns about Vista specified by participants were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software that would need to run on Vista," said Diane Hagglund of King Research.

System management?

[morgan_greywolf]

"Almost half of all participants (45%) cited challenges with system management in non-Windows operating systems as preventing them from adopting" alternatives, the report states.

Um, what? System management would be the lowest on the concern list with a move to non-Windows operating systems. Even despite technologies like virtualization making these easier, the single biggest stumbling block still has to be legacy applications. This is how it was the migration from DOS => Windows, from Novell => NT, and how it will be from Windows => Linux or Mac OS X.

As an IT professional...

[Fierythrasher]

...I would think that Vista concerns are valid and reasons for a business to upgrade are minimal (DirectX upgrades don't usually matter to most businesses). That said, businesses are rarely on the bleeding edge of tech. Businesses exist to make money, not test software (unless they're in the software testing business and paid to test software).

At a previous company where I worked (a large nationwide bank) no product was installed until Service Pack 1 came out. There was no overriding business need for th