[LINK] Linux poised for desktop failure: Gartner

[Howard Lowndes]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Saliya Wimalaratne wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Malcolm Miles wrote:
>
> > We pay little Microsoft "tax". Our PCs come with an OEM copy of the
> > o/s (yes, the cost of the o/s is bundled in, but this is hidden in the
> > leasing cost) and we haven't upgraded Office for some years. We could
> > move to OpenOffice or StarOffice without having to change our o/s
> > platform.
>
> And it is here, that I think the 'battle' will be won or lost.
>
> People will put up with all kinds of crap from an OS if they need an
> application that will only run on that base.

For a lot of the SME's its more a case that MYOB/Quicken/Attache aren't
ported to Linux then the port of an office package.

For the bigger enterprises the same might be said for SAP.

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