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Someone build active directory and domain join all the PC so that organizations can replace Microsoft .
There are many AD alternatives already, like Zentyal and FreeIPA or even Samba. But you'll never see any existing organization (certainly not medium or large ones) making a switch to a complete Linux environment, because then you'll have to deal with users - and no one wants to deal with users. I remember when back in the day our old company tried to roll out Office 2007 with the new ribbon interface - there was such a strong resistance from users that we had to cancel the rollout halfway and downgrade them back to Office 2003. Now imagine the kind of hell that would break out if you were to suddenly replace Windows with Linux...
It's an interesting thing when companies will gladly take all routes possible to make their employees miserable just to pinch a few extra coins of profit out but when a truly money saving action is available it will not be rolled out because of "fear" of people complaining about minor details.
IT changes usually affect management as well, while "cost saving" in production doesn't.