NewsForge: Global IT Firm Predicts Linux Will Have 20% Desktop Market Share by 2008

“One of the world’s largest IT companies is declaring that the
Linux desktop will capture 20% of the market for desktop computers
in large enterprises within 5 years.

“Siemens Business Systems, the $6 billion global IT consulting
and outsourcing company, has conducted extensive testing with
real-world, non-technical workers and is declaring that Linux has
matured as a desktop and will quickly vault to the #2
most-installed OS in the world.

“Senior program manager Duncan McNutt, who has overseen
Siemens’s testing of Linux desktops with users and administrators
in enterprise settings, believes that Linux will grow quickly as a
desktop OS because it can deliver equal productivity at
significantly lower costs than Windows in very large enterprise
environments–installations of 4,000 to 40,000 desktops…”

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