Hot skills: From hobby to ubiquity, Linux continues to expand

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 17, 2007 4:40 PM EDT
ComputerWeekly.com; By Nick Langley
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About 25% of enterprises will be running mission-critical business applications on the Linux open source operating system by 2009, according to a survey by Saugatuck Technology and BusinessWeek Research Services. By the end of 2007...the figure will be 18%. But this follows the revelation by IDC that after four years of double-digit growth, sales of Linux servers are slowing down. Although Linux servers now represent 11.8% of all server revenue, growth for the third quarter of 2006 was about 16% of that for the third quarter of 2005. Hewlett-Packard sells the most Linux servers, but it is less actively committed to Linux than IBM and, latterly, Sun.

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