Constraints
Since the threshold of the windows introduction into the market until its successful saturation in the global market, one would have ever bothered to imagine of something else to come and bite a segmental market share. But it happened with the introduction of the Linux. The main reasons for its successful spreading all over the international market is the problems that were associated with all those commercial operating systems.
Unless and until you do have problems with the existing ones, you will never seek to look for a new something. The problems came in more than a few ways. They were like costs, ready availability, duplicating capabilities and so on.
All these were major constraints and it was understood and realized by the creamy layer of the technically knowledge society that you are just under shackles as long as you are dependent on these commercial os. This is an edge of an advantage for the growth of the Linux in a very short period of time to scale leaps and bounds.
Freeware
The minimum amount of money that you would spend with the purchase of any other kind of operating system for your computer, which is reliable enough, would definitely be something not less than a hundred bucks. This is not quite affordable for a very hefty segmental share of the international community when they could find a free alternative.
Secondarily, when you consider the ready availability factor, just look into the very fact of you being in a need of your sources codes badly. It is not possible for you to get them availed instantly as you are totally relying on the mercy of the centralized technical support team of the manufacturing firm for your operating system in use. Certain people will certainly find it too bad to cope up and hence procrastinated a lot to automate their corporate functions for a very long time.
Duplication
Whole heap of companies felt that it is a process of beating around the bush and something next to impossible to be in perfect unison and precision to the conventional standards of work culture environment. Automation was considered to be a nightmare when it is was in half way. Business is affected adversely. Things changed in due course of time with the so many improvements that came in. Linux is one such one alternative too.
As of today, it could be pretty evident; there are very limited number of usage of pen and paper in some of the sophisticated companies. It is not only just because of the fact that they well want to minimize the hazards to a balanced eco system by cutting down the paper utilities; it is a matter of convenience to get it all automated. Linux served the purpose to perfection.
There was a constraint also. It was actually regarded to be one of the major limitations that a majority of them were facing with the utilization of the commercial operating systems. Duplication attributes are quite limited when you want to copy the system. They compared Linux in that position to be regarded with high respect.
