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The operating system is nearly irrelevant as a purchasable item because what people want is applications. If the application runs only on Macs, people will buy Macs. Sun Micro built their fading empire on growing a base of applications, as did Microsoft. And people buy application not because they need a CD-ROM filled with highly organized bits, but because they want to accomplish something using the software (like surfing the web to learn how to drill 1/4 inch holes).
Recently, IBM — the once and future 900 pound gorilla of the tech industry — announced that a client for Lotus Notes would be available on Linux. The IBM spokesman (if such creatures can be believed) noted that “he has personally been ‘hammered’ for the last several years at Linux and Lotus Notes conferences on the issue of when a client would be available for the Linux desktop.” Perhaps he was being hammered by IBM employees who have been shoved into using Linux desktops and likely were disconnected from their groupware grope.
The fact of the matter is that no enterprise will deploy Linux on the desktop (outside of IT) unless their applications — or reasonable equivalents — are available.
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