Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 17, 2003 @03:18AM from the now-thats-awfully-optimistic dept.

unmadindu writes "Siemens Business Systems, after conducting an extensive survey on non technical workers ("secretaries and managers, not IT people") is predicting that the Linux desktop will capture 20% of the market for desktop computers in large enterprises within the next 5 years. Senior program manager Duncan McNutt, who has overseen Siemens's testing of Linux desktops with users and administrators in enterprise settings, believes that the Ximian desktop and application suite, running on either SuSE or Red Hat, requires two days of training, which is the same as what most enterprises budget for a Windows/MS Office version upgrade. Interestingly, they used Ximian Desktop, instead of KDE, because Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was "different enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be less like Windows. "

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Unlikely. by slasho81 · 2003-08-17 04:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008
Despite its obvious flaws, Microsoft software is superior in at least one important aspect: usability.
This wins the desktop user time after time. Will Linux catch up? (Can it catch up?)