There are large companies that are putting, or planning to put all their internal applications onto web servers. Their users only need a computer with a browser that supports java. The process is slow in the US because our broadband speeds are so low. As our networks get faster, it will make little difference if the applications are running locally or remotely on the server side. That's why some corporations are moving in the direction of Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux.
I have to say that just 4 years ago there were no machines running Linux at my company. Now all the servers are running Linux and there's a couple of desktops running the latest version of Ubuntu in the computer room. I can see companies wanting support while they make the migration.
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