“Corel has launched its own Linux operating system (OS) after 13
months of research and development work with Red Hat….”
“But Gary Barnett, analyst at Ovum, remains sceptical.
“Linux is not going to displace the standard desktop in a hurry and
indeed the success of Linux on the server is by no means assured,”
he said. “The Linux phenomenon is still 80 per cent hype, it’s
a useful and cheap derivative of Unix and a lot of organisations
are seriously considering using it, but it has an awful long way to
go before it is the world beater it claims to be….”
“We’ve found more and more companies look at Linux and often
port their existing products to it. The more companies embrace it
and Fortune 500 companies use it the more legitimacy it gains,” she
said.”