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To: ild who wrote (141888)1/6/2002 5:13:31 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Totally useless unless it runs the most popular applications.
WORD
EXCEL
ADOBE
etc.

80% of companies have likely standardized around those products, people going into businesses are expected to know them IMO. A nice PC running some obscure software packages (if they exist at all), is simply not going to make any headway where it counts.

80% is a guess and perhaps it is way off. More important is market share and total number of PCs running WORD/EXCL/ADOBE vs the others as opposed to actual % of companies.

LINUX is living in dreamland unless and until it can run off the shelf major applications.

Until it can do that it is no more that a toy for techo-geeks. Even if it could, it will be a very very very slow conversion by businesses off NT. Now, if there is total disgust over XP AND there is software, I suppose it could happen sooner than never, but I doubt it.

LINUX is thus dead, and will remain so, much the same as Experanto as a universal language is dead as well, regardless of its obvious merits. Too much resistance to change, lack of a clear catalyst, and in the case of LINUX: lack of familiar software (if I am correct in that it will not run off the shelf applications people are familiar with).

NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

M
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