“While Linux will have important niche roles, it will not gain
broad acceptance as a substitute for Unix and Windows in the
enterprise in the near term.”
“GartnerGroup’s Dataquest and GartnerGroup’s annual forecast
(see Figure 1) for server/host OS spending project Linux hardware
spending to represent approximately 3.9 percent of traditional
server revenue, or $2.2 billion in 2004 (see Note 1). Linux servers
will represent a higher percentage of server appliance revenues (in
the range of 25 percent), or close to $4 billion.”
“… once Microsoft ships Windows 2000 Server with a service
pack in 2H00, the compelling argument for Linux will
recede…”
“Linux’s greatest competitive impact will be to speed erosion of
weaker Unix variants…”