I work in the IT dept at De Bortolis: We currently run the following cross platform Open Source apps (among others) on the desktop: Firefox OpenOffice Filezilla
Linux is used on the desktop in the form of Morphix (soon to be knoppix) based LiveCD terminals on attractive PC hardware (A64 3400+/2GB Ram/19"LCDs) in order to help drive the desire to use them (the fact that they're running off a ramdisk and are several magnitudes faster than the windows desktops is not often of concern to the users). The number of Linux desktops is roughly 20-30% of the ~150 desktops in the fleet, and steadily growing.
As an aside, we've had a relatively large amount of coverage for what we're doing (try googling) - we aren't in cahoots with anyone, I guess just lucky:)
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I work in the IT dept at De Bortolis:
:)
We currently run the following cross platform Open Source apps (among others) on the desktop:
Firefox
OpenOffice
Filezilla
Linux is used on the desktop in the form of Morphix (soon to be knoppix) based LiveCD terminals on attractive PC hardware (A64 3400+/2GB Ram/19"LCDs) in order to help drive the desire to use them (the fact that they're running off a ramdisk and are several magnitudes faster than the windows desktops is not often of concern to the users). The number of Linux desktops is roughly 20-30% of the ~150 desktops in the fleet, and steadily growing.
As an aside, we've had a relatively large amount of coverage for what we're doing (try googling) - we aren't in cahoots with anyone, I guess just lucky