Because businesses need support. They need to be able to rely on others to quickly get everything back in order or they lose money.
And since Linux does not have any (except for RedHat), they would need to have that support in-house. Which is a lot more expensive and still does not give all the expertise that big companies like Microsoft have.
For consumers it is free, but for businesses it costs a lot more money than using corporate standard software.
Every organization uses Windows because they can’t fathom that Ubuntu is perfectly fine to use.
Meanwhile Big Tech’s backbone are mostly libre software
Big tech is at a scale where it’s cheap to do an in-house solution. Amazon maintains its own distribution for internal Amazon systems
And Government isn’t at scale? Its the biggest scale.
Government is also smaller than big tech, at least tech wise.
No. Many different organizations with their own requirements.
Usually it’s because Windows is way cheaper to use.
How is Windows (which costs money) cheaper than Linux (which is free)?
Because businesses need support. They need to be able to rely on others to quickly get everything back in order or they lose money.
And since Linux does not have any (except for RedHat), they would need to have that support in-house. Which is a lot more expensive and still does not give all the expertise that big companies like Microsoft have.
For consumers it is free, but for businesses it costs a lot more money than using corporate standard software.
Probably the biggest source of income for open-source companies, is exactly providing support and similar services.
More support is needed when switching workplaces to Linux as people are familiar already with Windows.
But will that remain the same? People are already using computers less in their personal lives.
Less people use it which increases wages of the people that know it.
Also more hours lost when something goes wrong because of the smaller population of people that can fix it.