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Re: [News] [Linux] Pro-Microsoft Blogger Spews Out Linux FUD, Gets Rebuttal

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Take anything from IDC with a barrel of salt.

Well, I take the 'predictions' from any of the analysts with major
saltage, but their breakdown and analysis of past hardware and
software sales/deployments are usually rather well researched and 
documented.  Of course retasked hardware and in-house builds still 
make the Linux install base hard to quantify, but server hardware
sales are a different story, and they can reveal some useful trend
info.  Even if you assume no retasking of Windows hardware and no
servers built from parts... Linux is still a massive force in the
server market and is growing fast.

The desktop market looks like a replay of how the server market
developed.  The vendors mostly ignored it initially, so early
growth was happening under the radar.  Now it is on the radar
if still small.  The bit that is visible is just part of the 
picture, but it is useful in showing the growth rate if not 
the deployment numbers.

Thad


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