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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (67376)	4/16/2002 3:25:29 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It's interesting how you changed your mind during the years on this thread... but you are not the only one to change from thinking "Linux is just another Unix" to "Linux will conquer". I just saw Nestlé's way of doing computers. I think they are 250.000 employees or something like that. They run Microsoft Office 97 in some reduced version (I wonder whether that is because it gives reduced support or because they got a special price), they use Internet Explorer and Outlook. All computers are running Windows NT 4, including brand-new laptops. They considered switching to Windows 2000 instead of NT4, but stopped the transition a couple of weeks ago for some reasons (I think cost reasons), but they will switch to Windows 2000 slowly as computers get replaced in the future. Their installation must have a fairly high TCO - it costed them about 2.000 euro to add Adobe PhotoShop to a computer belonging to one I know there. A company like that don't need Windows on most computers. And if they would be using Linux, Office installation and servicing would be much easier (both MS Office and OpenOffice), and things like Adobe PhotoShop would not be needed for 90% of the PhotoShop users because Gimp does it as well. I think we'll see a couple of large corporations change from Windows to Linux on a very large number of desktops in the end of 2002. Dybdahl.

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