"According to Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, Linux now has a 20 percent worldwide market share--15 percent in the United States. And the numbers are growing, as more and more companies come to view Linux as a means to lower costs of hardware and software, moving from proprietary hardware platforms to environments that can support open source.
"The iSeries is right at the heart of IBM's Linux play, and a lot may be riding on how well the market views the iSeries as a platform of choice for Linux..."