I found this thoughtful article on mass Linux migration and the factors influencing it:
What drives a mass Linux migration? http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18625&Itemid=1090&limit=1&limitstart=1&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21&mosmsg=You+already+voted+for+this+item+today. (sorry for the long url. It is also found via search engines ok) I found the article interesting because there is certainly an ebb and flow of energies when operating systems are in question. If you have time, do also read the response comments - they are informative an done or two worthy of a chuckle. For example: one comment ends with a question: 'This is my question...if I can get a group of psychiatric patients to use linux why can't people get a group of "university trained" senior bureaucrats to accept linux as an operating system option?' To which an answer is later offered: 'Remember that the patients are there because there crazy, not because there stupid!' I was personally involved with a decision about which OS to use many years ago in a UK company, although Linux was not at that time one of the options. In the case in my experience, it was the familiarity that the operators at the work bench had with the OS they used at home (Windows) which won the day, against a good technical case the IT department had for OS/2. It showed to me that even unlikely decisions can be made if the common user likes it enough. Translated into a Linux migration scenario it means to me that the popular use of Linux (Ubuntu) can have a powerful influence, every bit as important as corporate or political drivers. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
