Linux use in computer servers running business applications was reported in 53 percent of the 500 North American companies surveyed by SG Cowen & Co. for its Core Technology Survey, released this week. In addition, 7 percent of the respondents planned to adopt Linux, which was the “most modest” level the New York investment banker had seen in its survey.
Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says
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Before anyone tries to use their amazing(tm) math skills and say 53 > 50, remember that running linux and windows or any other OS is not mutually exclusive.
This time we are looking at a more indirectly sponsored study by Microsoft. You might want to look up who is behind SG Cowen & Co. LLC and you’ll see they are largly owned by Société Générale, a large French bank that is one of the major investors of Microsoft.
Sorry, but Linux is gaining market share very rapidly. Nice try…
“They are largly owned by Société Générale, a large French bank that is one of the major investors of Microsoft.”
could you post a link to the source of your info?
If there is any percentage greater than zero of the uninstalled based planning on going to Linux than the Linux base is growing.
Check my math.
53% use Linux.
47% do not.
7% of all the respondents planned to adopt Linux, meaning they are not running it now.
So I get 7/47 = 15% extra growth.
Damn, even thier own figures say Linux is doing good. Guess they are using Excel in-house
re: and with the new intel-based Macs announced today, who needs linux?
Still waiting to find out whether it will run on any PC or it still will have a proprietary bios etc…
oneoh: sure, here we go: http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml?&ID=52026
how come all studies that are not conducted by any organization that is in some way associated with Microsoft agree that Linux use is growing very fast lately?
in fact, if Apple actually moves to using Intel CPUs we’ll see Linux become even more popular.
our entire department is using Linux now and everyone agrees what a relief it is. it might take you an hour or so to get used to it but it is just so much more user-friendly and a real joy to work with.
Statistics say a lot of things.
Anyway, I think you see that Linux’s biggest market is replacing Unix servers, especially on proprietary hardware.
Linux companies need to be more aggressive on targeting Microsoft users–both desktop and server–and targeting new markets such as smartphones. The desktop market has a big hole in it for a few months before Longhorn comes out (and Mac on x86).
Many companies make money from Linux desktops, and they should be putting programmers or money into two, key, under-resourced projects: OpenOffice.org and WINE.
As has been seen lately by Red Hat and IBM (I think), students should be trained in these technologies. Right now schools are very good at producing Microserfs because Microsoft donates resources—which gives Microsoft control of the cirriculum.
same here. we are all using gentoo linux now. its awesome! if you want to install something you just type: emerge <softwarename> and it downloads, compiles, and installs it.
i am using the Gnome desktop, firefox, openoffice and couldn’t be happier. everyone here became a linux fan!
>and with the new intel-based Macs announced today, who needs linux?
People that would be happy to exploit more than 20% of computer power
I suspect that no one wants to admit they’ve been reamed by the evil empire, hence FUD to declare, “the world is with us, we haven’t screwed ourselves into proprietary hell, that communist crap will never catch on”:
An excellent example of the use of Windows-based Grids for financial analytics is our work with Société Générale and Platform Software to make advanced analytics part of the ‘production’ system for SG’s commodities trading business. Their objective is to address increasingly strategic and time-critical business issues in trading and risk management. Over 800,000 data points are included in this application. Results to-date include improved P&L reporting, improved real-time risk management and excellent operational uptime.
Seems like Microsoft got down and dirty again and had SG Cowen & Co. spread some “statistics” to aim at Linux. That’s really disgusting. I am sick and tired of Microsoft, the way they conduct “business”, and the way they spread FUD and attack Linux.
As can be seen in http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS00153905
“Linux servers posted their eleventh consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 35.2% and unit shipments up 31.1%. Customers continue to expand the role of Linux servers into an ever increasing array of workloads in both the commercial and technical segments of the market”
Linux server revenue exceeded $1.2 billion in quarterly factory revenue in 1Q05 as Linux server revenues showed 35.2% growth, reaching 10.3% of overall quarterly server revenue – an all-time high, as a percent of total quarterly revenue. Worldwide investment in Linux servers for both technical and commercial workloads remains strong as Linux servers continue to expand their presence in data centers around the world. HP maintained its number 1 spot in the Linux server market, with 27.7% market share in terms of revenue, while IBM was second with 19.8%.
Where is Linux Exchange? -> Evolution, Kmail won’t do
Evolution actually can integrate with exchange
Where is Linux convenience for managing user profiles in a single place?
Did you ever heard about this little thing called “openldap”? Also, Redhat opensourced the netscape directory server today. Enjoy.
> You can’t deny that recent offerings from Microsoft are becoming vastly better and more integrated.
If you mean that IE can’t be uninstalled from Windows, I’d agree.
> Where is Linux Exchange? -> Evolution, Kmail won’t do
Geez, trolls like you don’t know how to use Google do you?! Try looking here: http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/
> Where is Linux convenience for managing user profiles in a single place? -> Samba won’t do
I despair of this guy – how about: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
Now learn to use Google like a good little Windows fanboy please before you post again.
WTF? Linux not there?
Kmail, Evolution won’t do… for what? They do more than Outlook does today. Kmail is simply excellent.
As for Samba, it certainly WILL do. It has more performance, more options and more backwards compatibility than W2003 does. Samba4 is shaping up to be much better, which is really quite a feat.
How about IIS… where is the range of options that Apache has? Nowhere. How about standards, will Microsoft support OASIS? Not likely! How about KParts, does Microsoft have the kind of automation and flexibility that KDE does? Nope! How about a player app the quality of Juk and aMarok? How about a choice of several integrated SQL servers that may be used royalty-free with unlimited end licensing? What about cost? Anything like apt-proxy available to deliver automated update packages to the network at Gig-E speeds? What does a simple network backup utility cost?
How about booting from the network? How about cost comparisons of NX vs. TS or Citrix?
There’s a lot more to the comparison that meets the eye, and cost IS A FACTOR for any business that would rather spend money building new business instead of paying for licensing and upgrades.
Linux Exchange? Hula! -> http://hula-project.org
..or OpenExchange -> http://openexchange.org
..or OpenGroupware -> http://opengroupware.org
And there are several other webbased groupware tools available.
Enough projects out there. On Linux (or other UNIX-like platforms) at least you have a choice. Although I have to admit none of those projects have reached the maturity of MS Exchange yet, but they’re getting there (quite fast actually).
Samba is for Windows desktops, not for Linux desktops. For Linux you have ZENworks/eDirectory/iManager (Novell) to manage profiles/identities/policies. And I’m sure there are other options out there somewhere. I’m not really into enterprise solutions.
Anyway I think most of those companies use Linux on servers, not on desktops. And on servers Linux is very mature.
Oh and Gnome will have a marketshare of 10% of all desktops by 2010, says Jeff (jeej! 10×10!;)
As the economy improves it appears Linux suffers. Right after Sept 11. IT spending dropped and we began to see a sharp rise in Linux adoption. Now, this is trailing off and IT spending is up.
It appears Linux is just an interim solution while IT shops pinched pennies. I suspect Windows XP and Windows 2003 server installments will sharply increase over the next 12 months.
Where is Linux Exchange? -> Evolution, Kmail won’t do
Apart from the obvious, that a Linux e-mail client won’t
do the job of a groupware server, there are plenty of solutions to solve e-mail and calendaring on Linux.
Add a cyrus-imap server to your Kontact PIM client (Kmail is the mail part of Kontact), and you can share calendar information, todo lists, and post-it notes with your collegues as easy as you can share imap mailboxes.
If that doesn’t scale well enough for you, add the cyrus murder IMAP aggregator, that creates a unified view of many imap servers, making it possible to server an infinite number of users without single point of failure problems.
All this without paying any licence fees, or having any licence administration costs.
Then, there is of course many specialized groupware servers available. E.g. OpenGroupware, Hula, OpenXchange.
Where is Linux convenience for managing user profiles in a single place? -> Samba won’t do
No, samba won’t do. It’s a for file sharing. To manage user related information you would typically use a catalog server like OpenLDAP or the new Fedora/Red Hat offering. However, this is only part of the answer. Linux have something called PAM, and nsswitch.conf that makes it possible to plugin many types of authentication and catalog systems. E.g. you could use a relational database if you like. This means that what you call profile management easily can be integrated into business applications.
Clients:
* Evolution is ugly and crashes all the time -> unusable.
* KMail is better, but is also prone to crashing -> unusable.
Servers:
* OpenXChange looks good but is isolated -> unusable.
* Hula: idem -> unusable.
* Cyrus IMAP (for contacts, calendar, tasks): I would like more information about this. It doesn’t seem to be a basic feature of Cyrus. For example, after installing Cyrus, what kind of steps need to be done so that contacts, calendar and tasks are enabled?
As for management of user profiles:
With Windows:
1. Install server.
2. Create profiles on server (preferences, privileges, mail). Here, “mail” already includes all the above mentioned groupware features, by default.
3. Connect clients.
4. You’re done!
With Linux:
1. ?