Thread: Poll and discussion: When/Will Linux become a major contender in the OS market?
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2010-05-06 , 22:33
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Originally Posted by roundyz View Post
The biggest problem linux faces is business.
What I said. Agree completely. Ordinary people would change, eventually, for something better. Business not just won't - it can't.

Most businesses wont touch free software because of the lack of liability associated with it.
Disagree, mostly. They would be more open to OSS, but ya gotta have standardization.

In business, everyone often needs to use the same software in order to have interoperability or just simply communicate. Try to run a business sending documents in anything but Word or Excel. Ain't happenin'. And that's just simple documents.

Software packages deployed over many locations and many businesses have to be written for a single OS or companies have huge support headaches. That's why even OS-X has near zero support in business software.

...people...over estimate the scale that it's deployment is at. If you then compare this to the reality; many many more machines have windows versions on. Its hard to admit this for a geek...its harder to realise that its entirely likely this won't change.
Exactly.
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