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The Wisdom of Ganesh: Desktop Predictions for 2007-2008

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[ Thanks to Ganesh
Prasad for this link. ]

“This has been stewing in my mind for awhile, and now the
picture has crystallised. Here’s what I predict will happen in the
desktop market over the next two years:

  1. “Apple will license Mac OS X to OEMs this year (2007) while
    Vista sales are still sluggish.
  2. “Mac OS X sales will surge wildly and end up accounting for up
    to 25% of all new PC shipments by the end of 2007.
  3. “Emboldened by Apple’s success, Sun will push GNU/OpenSolaris
    to corporations in 2008. The system will probably be called ‘The
    Liberty Desktop.’
  4. “Linux will be seen as ‘ready for the desktop’ once desktop
    diversity becomes the norm. Linux will dominate the low-cost
    desktop segment thereafter…”


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