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With XP ending support, I see many corporate customers switching to ReactOS. Firstly it's free rather than paying for a Windows upgrade, and secondly the premise is that all your apps will keep working exactly the same way, so no compatibility problems, and hence hopefully little to no downtime.

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To think that businesses will latch on to a solution that has never left alpha stage for development is shortsighted at best. There are far better solutions for making your XP applications continue to operate on modern systems.

Or what we will see instead is the status quo support or not from Microsoft. There are plenty of 9x machines out there.

I don't. However, Wine on Linux is plenty up to running quite a lot of software for production use (I have personal experience of this) and is IMO generally worth a try if you don't want to set up a gratuitous Windows VM.

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