Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008, Dec 17, 2004

For a theoretically free operating system, Linux is -- and will continue to be -- a cash cow, a research firm said Wednesday as it predicted the OS will bring in more than $35 billion in revenues by 2008.

The new Novell Linux Desktop began shipping recently. Even though many of you would rather post guards on your server room door rather than migrate from NetWare to another platform, the desktop is a different kettle of fish.

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.

At Red Hat Inc.'s headquarters in North Carolina, a quote from Mahatma Gandhi adorns a wall: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." That seems appropriate for a company which started as a guerrilla movement among technophiles but has now blossomed into a full-blown conflict.

Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing at MySQL AB, recently talked about what MySQL accomplished in 2004, its plans for 2005 and why he believes companies will choose open source as their New Year's resolution.

The PHP development team has released an update for the widely used scripting language that fixes a number of highly serious bugs, according to the project and independent security researchers.

'Linux is now mainstream,' claims IDC in its latest review of the Linux marketplace.

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