[ Thanks to Con
Zymaris for this link. ]
“If you’ve spent any time hanging around Linux-friendly
discussion sites such as Slashdot in the past few years, you could
be forgiven for thinking that Linux is still poised to take over
the world. Reality is not quite as kind.“Linux continues to play a role in enterprise markets, but its
growth spurt of recent years appears to have slowed a little. In
2001, Linux server environment shipments by revenue declined by
five percent to US$80 million, according to IDC, after two years of
solid growth. That decline does need to be seen in context,
however. While three years ago the argument for IT managers was
whether Linux would ever have a permanent place in their
environments, that discussion is all but over. ‘Two or three years
ago Linux was the province of geeks,’ says Geoff Lawrence, Linux
business manager for IBM. ‘It’s definitely moved from that world
into the mainstream…'”