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What would motivate a large enterprise in the United States to move to Linux on the desktop?

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What would motivate a large enterprise in the United States to move to Linux on the desktop?

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Berenstein: A little of everything: cost, productivity, stability and a ground-breaker. Companies tend to be cautious, and seeing one big company do it would influence other companies that are on the bench. At the Desktop Linux Consortium recently in Tyngsboro, Mass., one speech was titled, “Time is now for Linux on the desktop.” The speaker, from IBM, said that once a large, well-known, brand-name company switches over to Linux on the desktop, there will be an explosion of companies migrating over. Cost is certainly a factor for enterprises. In the last 12 months, computer viruses in Microsoft systems have cost about $30 billion in lost time and lost data. The ability of the Xandros desktop to act as a firewall against viral attacks, as well as the inherent stability of Linux systems in general, makes this a lot less likely to happen on the Linux desktop. Similarly, about two months ago, Bill Gates said that one of the things that still annoyed him about Windows was the fact that [it]

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