“NT’s lack of growth can be put down to Y2K and waiting for
Win2k to some extent, but it also suggests that Microsoft’s
attempts to leverage NT into the enterprise may be stalling.”
“IDC’s picture of the client market isn’t quite the one
of impending triumph for Linux portrayeed by the server stats, but
it’s still promising. At 4 per cent of sales it’s only a little
behind MacOS, and bearing in mind that nobody much has been really
trying to sell Linux as a client OS yet, this isn’t a bad
start.”