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What Lies Ahead For Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-to-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interview with Stacey Quandt, a Linux and open source industry analyst. She explains why she feels Linux will overtake Windows as the number one operating system within the next three years." There's some interesting tidbits on what it takes to be an industry analyst as well, and some looking back to when most analysts were unaware of Linux.

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  1. 3 years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Very unlikely ... a lot of extra market gained, yes. But overtake? I doubt it. I doubt it for 5 years. I'd believe it in the 10 year period.

    KDE and Gnome are very good now, and until Longhorn is released I think that Linux will get a better desktop than Windows. However Longhorn will enable Windows to catch up with MacOSX 10.2 finally, and Linux will be left behind both again.

  2. Help... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would the owner of a black and white 1992 penguin please report to the front desk.

  3. Weird confusing comment.. by superangrybrit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My mentor encouraged me to focus on host-based access to mainframes and AS/400, which is almost as exciting as watching paint dry.
    And how does looking at the console differ from those two? IMO the OS/400 command line is much nicer to use than Linux.
  4. nuff said by Stevyn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I took courses in Mandarin and art history and Chinese poetry and Chinese literature