Watch out Microsoft… the boys from Redmond don’t even have to get out of bed to make billions of dollars from Windows, but are those days numbered? Vista hasn’t exactly experienced a stampede of adoption and customers are increasingly questioning the amounts of money handed to Microsoft.

Linux on the other hand is maturing and the barriers for adoption in the corporate market place are steadily falling away. As a server platform (e.g. for Lotus Domino) Linux has been taken seriously for a number of years and has seen wide adoption – I’ve heard quotes like “3 out of 4 new servers deployed in China use Linux” (can’t find anything to back that up admittedly) and Michael Dell said last year “on the server side Linux continues to grow nicely, a bit faster than Windows”.

Adoption of Linux on the desktop has understandably been slower, but with mission-critical desktop applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Lotus Notes, Sametime and Symphony offering full functionality I’m sure the adoption will accelerate over the next few years.

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