Linux vendors and supporters are hoping to repeat their server successes on enterprise desktops.
The viability of Linux as an alternative to the Windows platform has been enhanced by sophisticated new desktop environments, productivity applications that approach Microsoft Office in functionality, a growing body of enterprise applications being ported to Linux, and software products that link Linux apps to Windows-based back-ends like Exchange.
But is this all enough to compel companies to ditch its Windows desktops in favor of Linux?
Linux boosters such as Sun and Red Hat think so, but two leading industry analysts--Giga Information Group's Stacey Quandt and Gartner's Michael Silver--say that undertaking a migration of that magnitude is a lot easier said than done.
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