Linked by Dmitrij D. Czarkoff on Tue 5th Dec 2006 18:30 UTC
The title of the article seems completely wrong to you? Naturally it would, when you daily read something like this. But I do state all this stuff is being a big mistake, if not worse. I am sure, that Linux is now close to extinction, and still is getting closer and closer to the point of no return.
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Exactly. The company I'm working in as an admin has 5 servers running (file, mail, OTRS etc.) and we all bought them without an OS. So there's no revenue neither for Windows or for Linux. On all these servers we're now running Debian - on the 2 newer ones Ubuntu 6.06 - all downloaded for free from the Internet - showing up in no statistics at all, but still adding to the Linux "market" share.
Tom
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That study doesn't count OS-less servers (which often will have a Linux installed later) or Linux appliances.
Most Linux growth is in the community distros, not the supported ones.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debi...
While Linux is a great platform for IT, it's not as good a platform for making revenues as Windows, since that OS requires higher specs for servers (thus more server revenue) and more servers (the one-server-per-service MS marketing model).
Linux, on the other hand, is most often installed on old or volume-bought clusters/grids, without support, and used to serve up websites via Perl/Java/PHP, database queries, or as a Java app server.
Companies like Red Hat base their business on the fact that as these (usually younger) companies that run community-based Linux like CentOS or Fedora grow to the extent that they start mitigating risk, they will move to a supported version. This would mean they keep their server, not buy new ones, and thus most Linux revenue growth will not be tied directly to server purchases.
Spend some time out in the real world of Linux deployment, NotParker, before spreading brainless marketspeak FUD.
Edited 2006-12-05 19:51