[ Thanks to Tom
Adelstein for this link. ]
“Advocates of open source initiatives seem puzzled by their
inability to penetrate the Enterprise desktop market. How can you
blame them? From a technical perspective, the main Linux
distributions provide a superior operating system and user
experience at a lower cost. As you will see, that’s the same
strategy Microsoft originally used to capture the market.“The root cause of Microsoft’s hold looks insidious. Even the
best market strategists I know have failed to recognize the
inapparent reason Microsoft maintains a commanding lead in the
desktop space. I have explained how to break Microsoft’s hold so
many times that I am puzzled by the glaze over executive’s
eyes…”