Increasingly, businesses, government entities and schools are starting to look beyond Windows, which IDC says securely dominates the desktop market with a 94% market share. Instead they're considering running Linux as their client operating environment. But the move is a slow one. While organizations see big cost savings in casting off proprietary licensing fees, many challenges remain, including the lack of application support and a reluctance within companies to move from an established operating system to one that is unfamiliar. An SG Cowen survey of more than 500 North American companies last year found that of the 80% of respondents that were using Linux, only 15% were using it on the desktop.
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