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Eh, between the financial expense, the human reluctance to change and the still very real barrier of "We can't migrate where there's nowhere to go" with respect to the software landscape, I think we need to compare our definitions of could. It's not just a business culture issue either. All change brings friction, but trying to replace the entire infrastructure of a company (and it has to be pretty much everything - one selling point of MS is how thoroughly integrated its products are) is basically ripping out most of the internal organs and replacing them with transplants, but also trying to keep the patient alive somehow... and you need to sell the people with the money on the idea.
Throwing away and starting over is costly, no matter the context. So no, I don't think larger companies can even make that choice at this point.
Smaller companies without the same inertia, in industries where there are Linux-compatible tools? Yeah, they can, provided the software they need is there too.