Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=339485153&eid=-219

Quote:
"Still, Microsoft provides plenty of other soft incentives to hardware
vendors, from sales support on large accounts, engineering assistance
and essential support for making drivers for add-on peripherals work
properly.

"It's like crack, they just can't get away from it," Enderle said.
"Are Linux vendors going to pick up the slack?"

OEMs, especially smaller system builders, will occasionally install
Linux if a customer demands it, Enderle said. But OEMs fundamentally
dislike Linux because it doesn't sport a track record of encouraging
users to upgrade their PCs in reliable three-year cycles the way
Windows does, Enderle said.

"The PC guys live on churn, and Linux doesn't really change enough for
them. That's theoretically good for IT managers, who would keep
employees on the same hardware for nine years if they could, but bad
for OEMs," Enderle said. "

/Quote
heh.. does that mean that the Ubuntu "LTS" concept is the kiss of
death from vendors but the saviour of Enterprise managers? :-P


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