“It’s one of the perennial questions facing the open source
movement: Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Ready or not,
Linux is coming.“Industry research company IDC predicts that enough companies
will see the benefits of a Linux desktop to increase paid shipments
of the operating system from 3.4 million clients worldwide in 2002
to more than 10 million by 2007, giving Linux a small but
respectable 6 percent of the desktop market…”