“Aaron Fulkerson has a thoughtful response to a recent Gartner
Group study. ‘There can be no doubt that open source will continue
to grow in usage and increasingly permeate IT infrastructures, but
I agree with Radcliffe, this is going to happen much faster than
Gartner predicts.’“That’s about right. Back in the early days of corporate Linux
adoption, Gartner was a little slow, too. They’re more about what’s
happening in conservative IT organizations, not that there’s
anything wrong with that, so you have to put a little fast-forward
on their predictions to get the real world…”