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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (60431)	8/7/2001 9:22:01 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: Business desktops Believe it or not OS software represents a very small expense for most businesses relative to other costs. Moreover, most businesses have no interest in becoming self-sufficient in this area. The success of Windows 95 in the consumer space in no small measure was responsible for driving its acceptance on the corporate desktop as well and I expect that experience to repeat itself with Windows XP. Employee training costs by far exceed any "savings" Linux would represent for most companies, which means that the ability for Linux to penetrate the corporate desktop market faces very high hurdles. Much of the Linux GUI development (KDE, Gnome) over the past few years has been to try to make the Linux user interface more like Windows. That in itself is hardly a reason to switch. As such the Linux opportunity outside the academic and hobbyist market remains largely confined to servers and to new embedded devices in which the OS is not visible to the user.