| IDC's Market-Share Tally Still Low-Balls GNU/Linux |
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Michael Singer writes an interesting article today, "Linux to Grow Steady for Next Four Years," for Jupitermedia's Internetnews.com. He cooly states, "Linux is much more popular in the enterprise than previously thought, according to a new report out today." Given how grossly this understates the truth about GNU/Linux and its prospects, such tempered optimism deserves a cascading laugh track.
Mr. Singer properly cites the day's new information: IDC projects 2008 revenues for "desktops, servers and packaged software running on Linux" at $35 billion, and they project a 2008 server market-share split of 26% Linux and 63% Windows. He notes that these are better than IDC had previously expected for Linux.
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