__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Saturday 01 April 2006 01:16 \__
> Roy Schestowitz blithely blithered
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>>| Linux adoptions are to grow in the next three to five years
>>| at nearly triple the rate of Windows, according to Oracle.
>>|
>>| In an interview at the LinuxWorld conference in Sydney, the
>>| database company suggested Linux deployments had grown beyond
>>| an adoption phase, and were now becoming ubiquitous in small
>>| and large businesses alike."
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>> http://uk.builder.com/programming/unix/0,39026612,39305138,00.htm
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> Honestly the only problem I have with this is the MS monopoly. They have
> nowhere else to grow.
This is not entirely true. Think of the many countries where not everyone has
a computer, yet. There is constant growth, which explains why despite many
disappointment at Microsoft (delays, OpenOffice, Google, Linux servers
taking over), their revenues continued to grow last quarter.
Best wishes,
Roy
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