I would say not so much a mirror. Their situation in many aspects is far better than ours:
They still have a viable and inexpensive hardware platform
They are unified
They have business customers
They have far more users and developers than we have
They already have a working OpenOffice and Firefox between other ports
They have a company which drives its OS, which is semi-serious
So still, they are in some aspects, in a far better position than we do.
