Accounting and Business Technologies: It Is and It Isn’t About the Desktop

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“Industry analysts and tech junkies all seem to agree that the
problems staving off Linux desktop adoption are focused on the
availability of applications coupled with the complexity of
implementing and maintaining those apps. The solution, they say, is
to make more Linux-native applications available, and to
standardize the technology to a point where mainstream users can
really use it. In other words, to make it more like Windows in
these respects. This is indeed a lofty goal.

“In working with a large community of Linux resellers and system
integrators, it becomes clear that the lack of certain applications
for Linux does indeed keep customers from adopting the desktop
platform…”

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