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Desktop Linux Survey Results Published

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the jewels-of-wisdom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Development Labs has published preliminary results from its desktop Linux survey, which had 3,300 responses. The month-long online survey focused on determining the key issues driving Linux on the desktop, as well as the major barriers to Linux desktop adoption. 'What was most surprising to us was probably the top two reasons given for deploying Linux on the desktop,' OSDL's Principal Analyst Dave Rosenberg said. 'It's not TCO (total cost of ownership), or security, or lack of license fees. It was 'employees requesting Linux (user demand)' and because 'my competitors have successfully deployed Linux,' he added."

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  1. Well, there you have it. by Atario · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not for stability, or security, or pricing, or modifiability, or all the great things that come to us from Unixland.

    It's because we're all so cool.

    Who could have guessed it?

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    "A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
    1. Re:Well, there you have it. by Steeltoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh Give me a break! Those powers are easily twarted by the olufant, and everybody knows it.
      I'd draw an olufant over the figer any day!

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      http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
  2. actually by iced_tea · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's not TCO (total cost of ownership), or security, or lack of license fees," Dave Rosenberg said. "It's about the lack of a talking paper clip."

  3. sigh* by Tahir+Azhar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know why but grandma kept insisting on NetBSD....

  4. Re:Scuttle Micropenis lost it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Believe it or not, my Linux-server is standing on my desktop right now.

  5. Bandwagon by kahei · · Score: 3, Funny


    So, in other words, Linux was installed not for business or technical reasons but because the next guy has it so we should have it too and people are talking about it so we should get one and so on.

    Linux is all grown up! Finally it is behaving in the marketplace the way real money behaves -- soon, CIOs everywhere will be propounding their 'Linux strategy' and writing articles in trade rags about 'how a switch to Linux allowed us to give our clients a competitive edge'. Heck, they already are! Then in 10 years, we'll be reading about how 'evaluating Linux alternatives forms a major part of our strategy for cutting the soaring costs of server farms' and so on and the cycle will go on.

    Yay!

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    Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
  6. Re:Gamers by LordFnord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Web forums where you'll get lots of responses like "WTF OMG d00d j00 r so l4m3 4 wr1tng a g4me on M$ windoze LOL u sux0r".