Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Dec 2006 17:10 UTC, submitted by Bill Beebe
"This post comes at the convergence of a number of events. First, there was the story on OSNews titled 'Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?' That generated a number of responses, one of them from Aaron J. Seigo. With all the drama buzzing in the background, I went back to my Suse 10.2 installation and started to look at the KDE desktop."
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[The only company I can think of off the top of my head with a real desktop presence is Burlington Coat Factory ]
Are you sure that you have seen enough companies. Let me add some of the BIG ones ::
1) IBM - arguably having the biggest workforce in IT industry. They are having a modified version of RHEL and use it on their desktops. They have even ported ll their internal applications on RHEL. So if one fine day u want to Run Lotus Notes ( mail client) or for that matter most of IBM applications, well they run on Linux.
2) Yahoo - Most of their desktops are FreeBSD based. The default desktop is KDE. They have plans to port all their applications to KDE/Gnome.
3) Google - They use Linux in big way. Ubuntu is one of the distro they use and use it to the extent that there is a buzz of google bringing out Gubuntu.
4) The city of Munich has migrated more than 14,000 computers to their own version of Linux (LiMux ).
OK I agree that all the above mentioned also use Windows, but the number of people using Linux/FreeBSD on desktop is not small by any standards.
If Steve Balmer believed that Linux is no threat to Windows on desktop, then MS would never have made a deal with Novell. But then, this is my personla view.
Cheers.