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Linux Revenues Expected To Hit $28B in 2008

Posted by timothy on from the in-pennies-it-could-change-our-orbit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Key findings from a newly completed IDC market study project that the overall revenue for desktops, servers, and packaged software running on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008. Additionally, IDC forecasts that while Linux remains a minority player on desktop PCs, Linux penetration in that realm will reach $10B annual revenues, on 17 million units shipped globally, by 2008. A summary of the study is available as a free download from the OSDL."

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  1. 50% / 60% of the desktop market by remosain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Down here in Argentina .... probably 50% or 60% of the new computers in the market are shipped with Linux on it (Xandros, mostly) It's done to save costs (arround 80 U$S) but its a great oportunity for Linux to grow. Of course, piracy is a big issue here, so of all the computers bought, not a lot of them stay using Linux, but it is still the first option if you want to buy a cheap computer.