Thanks to Julian Coombes for this
link.
“IDC is pouring cold water on Microsoft and Intel’s ambitions
for their new babies – Windows 2000 and IA64 – in the European
server market…”
“Only moderate growth for the server market in Western Europe is
predicted with a compound annual growth rate of 6.2 per cent from
$18.0 billion in 1998 to $24.4 billion in 2003 in terms of customer
spending. Some factors driving these sales are appliance servers,
Linux and information utilities…”
“It appears that everyone who was loyal during NT’s onslaught on
Unix is now covering his or her bets by supporting Linux in one way
or another,” said Vernon Turner, vice president for IDC’s worldwide
commercial systems and servers programme.”