Like I said.....it has to grow in small businesses first. To do that more
quickly, make it easier for small businesses to own and program for their
own purposes.
They have to be able to take the same level employee that could code in VB
on Windows and code in Whatever on Linux -- or it just ain't gonna happen.
jim
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2774288.eSSVP2QkyO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> How To Be a Linux/Free Open Source Advocate
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The problem is that the majority of people are used to using Microsoft
> | Windows, to doing things a certain way, and Linux does similar things,
> only
> | in slightly different ways.
> |
> | So, there's a learning process which must involve reading as much as
> | possible.
> `----
>
> http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-be-linuxopen-source-advocate.html
>
> Going Open Source Series & Working With Open Source Companies - 3 RedMonk
> White
> Papers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Just a few days over a year ago, we wrote two papers at the request of
> one of
> | our clients that was thinking through open sourcing part of their
> portfolio.
> | The two papers in the Going Open Source series are intended to help out
> | companies thinking of getting more involved in open source, indeed,
> going
> | open source.
> `----
>
> http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/04/24/going-open-source-series-working-with-open-source-companies-3-redmonk-white-papers/
>
>
> Related:
>
> Linux Market to Triple by 2012
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on
> Linux-based
> | server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will
> more
> | than triple between 2007 and 2012.
> |
> | A market for a platform is not the same as an ecosystem for it, which is
> much
> | larger in that it includes the cost of people and third-party software
> and
> | services for the code that runs atop the platform. So the R&M Linux
> market
> | numbers might seem a little small. In any event, the consultancy pegged
> the
> | Linux product and services market for Linux running on servers and
> clients
> | (but not embedded systems) at $2.4 billion in 2007.
> `----
>
> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html
>
>
> 2010: Russia's open software market to grow 4-fold
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Analysts note that Linux vendors are traditionally present on the mobile
> | device market. According to forecasts the OS might become the leader in
> | the segment accounting for 40% of it by 2010. ?Currently the share of
> | mobile devices with Linux OS is not big in Russia as compared to other
> | countries, such as China, for instance. However, the producer's policy,
> | Nokia in particular testifies to the fact the situation is changing
> | for the better", Ms. Karaeva concluded.
> `----
>
> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/05/15/249978
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