[Talk] Re: [Linux-aus] Who can make sense of Gartner's prognostications?

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:49:09PM +1000, David Purdue wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >On Monday,  4 August 2003 at 16:04:14 +1000, Con Zymaris wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6861814%255E15306,00.html
> >>
> >>LINUX penetration within Australian enterprises may reach 90 per cent
> >>within three years, but it will remain a niche technology, with only 10
> >>to 15 per cent of IT infrastructure running on the open source software,
> >>according to Gartner.
> 
> (Leaps to defence of Gartner - stops to wonder what the hell he is
> doing - carries on leap anyway.  ;-) )
> 
> What the report is saying is that Linux will reach 90% of ENTERPRISES,
> but only 10-15% of SERVERS.
> 
> I don't know if this is true or not, but at least it has no internal
> inconsistency.


And for a different slant on the same report:

Aussie giants like Linux: Gartner
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=10&Art_ID=12570

 "[Linux] just sits there in the background, doing its thing. People are 
 starting to deploy it and forget it," [Gartner's Sargeant] said.

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