Linux Expands Beyond the Office Into the Home, Dec 26, 2004

Retired government worker Robert Biggs uses his computer mainly to get recipes and check e-mail. Public relations consultant Phil Gomes uses his to maintain an elaborate personal Web site. The two have little in common -- except that their computers both run on the Linux operating system.

It's one of the perennial questions facing the open source movement: Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Ready or not, Linux is coming.

As much as 83% of the computers in the corporate world run on Windows 98 and the earlier version Windows 95, while 4% preferred Linux, the open source software.

Unless the European court that upheld European sanctions against Microsoft demands different remedies than U.S. courts did, it won't do much to level the playing field for open-source products, one open-source advocate says.

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