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Story: Novell: Vista will drive users to Linux

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Wishful thinking. Microsoft have been very good at training their followers to upgrade without asking questions about return of investment or if the new system actually fills any business needs not covered by the old version.

There is very little that can be done in XP that couldn't be done in win2k, or even NT4. Yet almost half of all businesses have upgraded to XP and among home users the figure is even higher as they tend to use whatever OS that comes with the box without any IT infrastructure considerations.

If peopel weres smart they wouldn't upgrade to Vista, or to Linux, they would stay with what they have. If you are going to migrate to a significantly different system like what we hope Vista will be or to Linux it will cost a lot ofmoney. And if Vista isn't that significantly different it will probably not make that much difference and the cost of deploying it will outweigh the benefits.

That doesn't mean that Linux or, for that matter, Vista is bad systems, just that there is really no reason to switch if you allready have an install user base.

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