OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19953/Making_Desktop_Linux_Work_for_Business Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:17:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com "Linux an increasingly attractive option" http://osnews.com/thread?321130 http://osnews.com/thread?321130
Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled with the ever-escalating cost of application licenses, make switching to desktop Linux an increasingly attractive option.

That's music to the ears of those of us who have discovered the superiority of Linux and can't understand why it hasn't enjoyed a better adoption rate.

And forget about SharePoint; Linux users are shut out.

I'm very unhappy to hear that. I just started working a job where Windows, MSWord, and SharePoint rule. Very sad.

Frustrations like these are inevitable: This is vendor lock-in at work. As a general rule, the leading Linux applications support most of the functionality that users expect from their categories, but proprietary protocols and closed APIs can thwart true compatibility.

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