“Linux has hopped over competitors to become the
second-most-popular operating system for server computers after
Windows NT, but it’s not making much money for those selling it,
new figures show.”
“About 1.35 million copies of Linux were sold in 1999, which is
25 percent of the 5.4 million total copies of operating system
software, according to preliminary data from market research firm
International Data Corp. Linux shipments surpassed that of
tried-and-true operating systems Novell Netware and all types of
Unix in 1999. Nearly twice as many copies of Linux shipped last
year than in 1998, and it grew at roughly four times the rate of
the server OS market as a whole.“
“Linux is moving much more rapidly than we thought,” IDC analyst
Dan Kusnetzky said. “We had projected it would be No. 2 in 2002 or
2003. It happened in 1999.”
