InfoWorld: Linux Will Get Buried

“I’ve kept a practically subterranean profile since Apple’s
Worldwide Developer Conference a few weeks ago. I have so many
venues at which to serve the many pots of content I’ve got bubbling
upstairs that spreading it evenly and avoiding redundancy is the
greatest challenge. The portion I’ll serve, in this space, is part
of the sharpening outline of the shape that professional,
commercial, and enterprise computing will assume by the end of the
decade.

“Apple’s UNIX (who knows what it’ll be called by then) will
overtake commercial Linux in rate of revenue growth by the end of
2007. By mid-2008, Apple’s sales of systems with factory-installed
Apple UNIX will exceed the total combined sales of x86 systems
factory-shipped with commercial Linux. At the end of the decade,
we’ll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the
second most popular general client and server computing platform
behind Windows…”

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