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Notebook prices have fallen a lot over the last few years. Traditionally the people who got notebooks were business travelers, but within the last couple years companies have tried to create a more flexible working environment even for the more office-based people.

The adoption of Linux on the desktop will be slow because a platform migration can be expensive and time-consuming.

Computers, Internet access, cell-phone technology and simplified web-page design software have all become cheaper and faster in recent years, making it easier to launch some type of at-home enterprise without sinking a lot of money into it.

The $100 number depends very much on the business processes a company uses to deploy. Maybe if it was completely automated, they could get down to that point.

Linux has been limited to the edge of the network for tasks like Web servers . But now we are seeing it gain stature and become part of the server network.

There is an opportunity for them to gain some ground in the SMB market, which is where most of the business PC growth will take place.

Forrester believes that firms are more interested in stability and consistency in the PC environment than in new features. And Windows XP meets the vast majority of its users needs.