[luau] News - Gartner - The State of Enterprise Linux

[Warren Togami]

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2879104,00.html

Through 2007, the Linux market will surpass $9 billion in revenue,
approaching 18 percent of total shipped revenues on an initial
acquisition basis (0.8 probability). 

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Eighty percent of Gartner clients, typically enterprises of 1,000
employees or more, have Linux deployed somewhere in the enterprise. But
at least 80 percent of these deployments are in either appliance and
network functions, file and print services, Web front-end applications
or computational server "farms." 
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