SMB Linux Use on the Rise
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| A growing number of the estimated 5.8 million small and midsize businesses
| in the United States are buying Linux solutions, mostly from solution
| providers, according to research from AMI-Partners.
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| Linux, according to AMI, of New York, is benefiting from a growing
| acceptance of open-source products overall.
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| "While Linux is becoming more mainstream, our research shows that SMBs
| are more interested in open-source solutions than Linux per se," said
| Abhijeet Rane, AMI's senior vice president. "The SMBs buying Linux
| solutions are mostly buying apps that operate in the background of a
| business."
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| Linux is also penetrating into the desktop. IDC has reported that desktop
| Linux will make large gains over the next couple of years, hitting $10
| billion in annual revenues by 2008.
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