[csydas]

This is very true, since the idea of meritocracy doesn't do a lot to overcome business inertia of being in a Microsoft Environment.

If there is a Linux solution that in every way exceeds a Microsoft Solution from a technical and price standpoint, you still need to weigh in the transition costs, employee costs, and the long term effect of changing. It's not always as simple as "X is better than Microsoft's Y, people will use it." There are far more things that get considered, and you can get tied down pretty heavily when your entire workflow and operations rely on a single product or vendor.

The longer you've been using a product, the harder it is to get away from it. It's not that Linux isn't good or making a lot of cool progress in all realms, it's that Microsoft does "good enough" and the transition isn't seamless enough for many use cases.