Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:12 : \____
>
>> Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Brit Business Users Not Warm on Vista
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>> More than half (58 per cent) of businesses using Microsoft
>>>>>>> technology are "exploiting" Windows XP compared to just
>>>>>>> four per cent for Vista, according to the 'reality
>>>>>>> checkers' research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif), seen
>>>>>>> exclusively by silicon.com.
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux is less than 1 percent after 15 years of being free.....
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
>>>>
>>>> In July, W3Schools had Linux hits at 3.6%, now shows 3.8%, in March 2002
>>>> was 2.2%. So much for the 1% theory.
>>>>
>>>> Discounting Linux browsing the Internet cloaked as Windows/IE to view
>>>> Microsoft mandated software content,
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't believe many people are doing that anymore. Do you do that? I
>>> don't remember the last time a website turned me away for not using Windows.
>>>
>>
>> Most corporate systems were built for IE-only usage, as an example.
>> Look at Accenture's outsourced HR offerings, say.
>>
>> I'd estimate that the vast majority of workers in major corporates are
>> stuck with internal systems which have been designed for IE and don't
>> work well, if at all, with anything else. Part of the problem is that
>> there is no simple business case to make the change, whereas for general
>> consumer stuff, the case is very strong indeed.
>
> I hear that about 8% of the people in Brazil use GNU/Linux and that's
> even /before/ they deploy it in /all/ the schools.
>
> Found an hour ago:
>
> "For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in
> Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there. "
>
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1369&blogid=14
>
Good for them, really. As we get more and more graduates with Linux
skills and expectations appearing on the job market, then I think that
things will have to change in companies.
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