The thrust of one of the most prolific public Linux cases will now be lost, but Gartner Inc. analyst Peter Hidas is not surprised. Gartner has always believed that Linux on the desktop still has far to go, and that it might never take off, he said.

'Bergen's decision comes as no surprise. Linux works best on infrastructure and on database servers where the system runs in the background," Hidas said.

(Translated by IDG Norway's Christer Aasen.)