Originally Posted by RawAlex

The real world. My office sends your office a document to work on. My accountant sends your accounts payable details of last years accounts payable. My graphics designer sends your magazine an ad to be run.

The real key and the real reason computers do so much in the world is because we can create and move things from place to place, share, work together, make different versions, revise... it is bad enough that there is always little PC vs Mac issues, adding in a *nix with totally incompatible desktop programs isn't going to help things much.

I know there are programs for 'nix that can read word files and such, but they are a pain and not really useful for end users. Can you imagine the typical office secretary type suddently moved from windows to *nix? Yeah, there is a huge productivity boost there!