| The rise and rise of the Linux empire |
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| Publication: | VNUnet | Date: | Sep 12 2002 |
Linux has won in the server market because it scales and is robust. It didn't win by slick marketing, because there wasn't much, apart from the cartoon picture of a penguin and a helping hand from IBM. It won by quality and viral proliferation.
This is bad news for Microsoft. Most of the firm's server products run only on the Windows server. If Windows becomes marginalised, then its server revenues will decline.
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