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Thread: Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008?

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    Quote Originally Posted by igodit View Post
    "Siemens Business Systems, after conducting an extensive survey on non technical workers ("secretaries and managers, not IT people") is predicting that the Linux desktop will capture 20% of the market for desktop computers in large enterprises within the next 5 years. Senior program manager Duncan McNutt, who has overseen Siemens's testing of Linux desktops with users and administrators in enterprise settings, believes that the Ximian desktop and application suite, running on either SuSE or Red Hat, requires two days of training, which is the same as what most enterprises budget for a Windows/MS Office version upgrade. Interestingly, they used Ximian Desktop, instead of KDE, because Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was "different enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be less like Windows. "
    I guess Linux desktop did not capture 20% of the desktop market by 2008
    I recommend Ubuntu

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobyG View Post
    I guess Linux desktop did not capture 20% of the desktop market by 2008
    Nah. It seems that they should just concentrate on the back end which they are stronger and faster.
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    Youthful exuberance is a hell of a thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gillion View Post
    Youthful exuberance is a hell of a thing.
    Wasn't that the excuse used by a certain Govt Minister several years back?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Wasn't that the excuse used by a certain Govt Minister several years back?
    Indeed. Same one you hear about in the new nowadays...
    Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it poorly.

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    One of the main things I think is familiarity. If there was another iteration of Lindows - maybe more people would move towards that. The integration with DropBox/OneDrive/etc would put a lot of NetBooks back to good use.
    Knowing the solution doesn't mean knowing the method. Yet answering correctly and regurgitation are considered "learning" and "knowledge".

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