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We cannot choose one desktop over the other – Gnome or KDE – because there’s users for both code bases.

In some cases we’ve been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we’re learning from them.

We all love Linux, but it’s also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

We’ve been using C and C++ way too much – they’re nice, but they’re very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it’s by June next year we all migrate to Linux – you don’t want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.