The push from Dell, HP, IBM and Sun to improve the desktop computing abilities in Linux will all be in vain if more software vendors aren't providing Linux desktop applications to the end user. I think the office suites will get there in terms of matching the capabilities of MS Office and quite possibly being better overall, but individual industries need the specialized applications made available for the whole thing to fly.
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The push from Dell, HP, IBM and Sun to improve the desktop computing abilities in Linux will all be in vain if more software vendors aren't providing Linux desktop applications to the end user. I think the office suites will get there in terms of matching the capabilities of MS Office and quite possibly being better overall, but individual industries need the specialized applications made available for the whole thing to fly.