Desktop Linux opportunity is thick in the BRICK

[Senectus .]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=629

*Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea. BRICK*.

That is where desktop Linux opportunities are most pronounced,
according to Dave
Rosenberg<http://www.release1-0.com/contributors/contributor.cfm?author_id=8>,
principal analyst at OSDL <http://www.osdl.org/>and the man who led a survey
of the field last fall.

"We're so close in a lot of ways," to Linux gaining major market share,
Rosenberg said as he prepared for today's Desktop Linux
Summit<http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.com/>in San Diego.

Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/>, which rose to prominence by delivering
localized versions of Linux for specific language markets, is a big part of
it. You are more likely to find Linux in your local minor language today
than Windows.

And speaking of Microsoft, that is Rosenberg's second reason why desktop
Linux may finally be ready. "My feeling, from the buyers' side as well as
the analyst side, is the timing is right. That's because Microsoft is in the
middle of a major product shift.

"Vista will probably be bloated, it will be targeted by all the hackers,
there's a different User Interface, then Office 12 is bizarre – it will be
both overshoot and undershoot, and it also has a new User Interface.

"Why bother at this point to upgrade?"  And at this point we might think
seriously about Linux. Especially in the BRICK countries. Because even if
you're pirating Windows, the new software will require retraining, which
costs time and money.




--
www.modmeup.net
Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
The less you know, the more you believe. - Bono
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/attachments/20060426/a80da43e/attachment.htm