LinuxPR: ISPs believe large IT company adoption of Linux to be benefit not threat
Aug 11, 2001, 00:49 (2 Talkback[s])
"Further research conducted by Idaya (www.idaya.co.uk),
sponsors of the freeVSD project (www.freevsd.org), has revealed
that the global top 1000 ISPs broadly welcome large IT companies
embracing Linux, and feel that this trend would constitute a boost
for the GPL market.
However, a fifth of respondents also felt that the rapid
adoption of Linux-based services from the major IT solution vendors
would squeeze opportunities for smaller players and freelance
developers, an outcome which would contradict the spirit in which
Linux was created. Opinion in the ISP community was evenly split as
to whether Linux could ever become the desktop operating system of
choice.
This latest research from Idaya/FreeVSD was concluded in June
2001, and surveyed opinion amongst the global top 1000 Internet
Service Providers - precisely the companies that have made the
greatest investment in GPL technology and applications. Respondents
were a mixture of business managers, technical heads and service
managers.
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