Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Linux Market to Triple by 2012
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> | 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.
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> | 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.
But not embedded systems? Woo!
What is that supposed to mean?
Embedded Linux is only worth $200+ billion!
The last time I checked, Linux was worth $270 billion.
> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html
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