“Compaq says demand for Linux among its largest business
customers is exploding, but it’s not finding a matching need for
services.”
“Still Linux use is exploding. Shipments of systems pre-loaded
with Linux are expected to soar 25 percent through 2003. That is
double the percentage growth predicted for other workstation and
server systems…”
“At IBM, service calls for Linux are 35 percent of the volume of
calls for AIX, IBM’s version of Unix, said Katalin Walcott, Linux
services executive at IBM Global Services.”
“The volume is low but not as low as we thought it would be,”
Walcott said. “The Linux user is savvy…”