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No license payments lure, as open source on the rise!
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| The absence of upfront license payments is the main driver in open source
| adoption, along with the lower costs of total ownership, for companies in the
| European market despite lingering market concerns about the level of software
| support and the quality of open source software.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25795/1231/
Recent:
Interactive Ideas gets a lift from Linux sales
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| It expects to record turnover of £16m for its financial year to 30 April
| double the £8m sales it rang up two years ago. Linux sales, which represent
| its largest revenue stream, rose 65 per cent year-on-year.
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http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2243253/interactive-ideas-gets-lift
Linux vendors trumpet cost savings
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| Microsoft's Windows Server revenue is down 29 percent. Meanwhile, Novell's
| and Red Hat's Linux businesses are thriving.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10251998-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
How is it measured ?
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| Estimated sales blah blah blah. How do they estimate ? My company buys
| servers from Dell, after they arrive some get Windows and some get Red
| Hat Linux. We don't tell Dell what they are being used for.
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| All of them come with a Windows image preloaded, which is erased no
| matter what OS we put on top. Is that counted as a Windows sale ?
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| If the answer to that question is "yes", then the estimate (for us) is
| out by about 75%, since of the ones coming in about 75% are used for
| linux. What if everyone does that ? What if no one does that ? What is
| some people do that ?
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http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=65008&messageID=1212615
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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