Interesting Enterprise Software Industry Overview
Here is an article I found interesting:
http://marketrealist.com/2014/07/must-know-overview-software-industry-2/
Side notes:
Oracle University is still using GNOME 2.20 for its desktop PC UI. Who wanted GNOME 3? What testing/studies show the changes were needed or were an improvement to usability or productivity? Who is paying for PC's with GNOME 3 shell? Could Redhat sell a PC with it? Redhat nor Canonical aren't even trying.
IBM had/has so much consumption/expenses that some of its vendors are still using Lotus Notes for email. (Use our software or we won't recommend you as a vendor to our employees). To get companies entrenched in competing software it takes a critical mass such as the size of IBM. IBM still isn't an HP, Dell, Lenovo, or Apple when it comes to business desktop PC sales.
Redhat is. Thoguh the fact that it's been modified by them is more a blow for your point than to your point.
Redhat doesn't sell desktop computers to people who spend time working in the graphical environment...using Evolution, Numeric, Anjuta, GIMP. I don't feel servers require the same usability that a desktop PC does.
I know of at least one RHEL 3.5 that is running KDE not GNOME...for Schlumberger's Decision Space.
Is Redhat selling desktop PC's like BestBuy, Walmart, Apple Store, Think Penguin, ZaReason, System76 etc.?