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IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream
robyannetta writes "Eweek has an
interesting article
quoting IDC analyst Al Gillen saying "Linux is no longer a fringe player. Linux is now mainstream." He made that observation because IDC's research predicts that Linux's overall revenue for desktops, servers and packaged software running on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008."
Now that Linux is mainstream I'll have to turn my back on it and find another cause to fight for. Has Netcraft confirmed the BSD rumours?
Trolling is a art,
until Netcraft confirms it.
So...doesn't that mean it'll be mainstream in 2008?
Assuming the prediction is right.
Hell. I predict I will be a stud by 2008, because I predict I will be having sex CONSTANTLY.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Tell me something I don't klnow
Danger Will Robinson! You are now entering a condescending Unix user zone!
So does this mean linux is not cool any more?
[n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
... right above the article, declaring how Windows is cheaprer, less error prone, and more cost effective than Linux.
These same ironic banners are on Slashdot all the time. It's hilarious.
I used to see Linux play in basements and living rooms. Now they have gone mainstream. They signed that $35 billion record deal. Damn sellouts.
Be quiet we hope our manufacturing competitors read that banner and believe it, let them spend the money on a buggy os while we cut our prices to drive them out of the market.
Got Code?
All the cool antisocial elitist nerds will be using Hurd, man! Any time now...
It was mainstream when it made it on the Chapelle Show:
"If they give you a Windows disk, tell them we only run Mac. If they give you a Mac disk, tell them we only run windows. IF they give you both, tell them we use linux. And if they give you all three, tell them the computers are down."
IDC analyst Al Gillen [said] "Linux is no longer a fringe player. Linux is now mainstream."
/Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Gillen went on to chortle, "But Linux geeks are not mainstream, and while they will continue to belong to the fringe, then will never ever be players with the laaadies!
On hearing this, the assembled contingent of bearded, pasty, pot-bellied Linux geeks hung their heads in shame, silently acknowledging the truth of Gillen's words, while wishing they could, like the 7th level Magic-Users they aspired to be, quietly teleport back to their mother's basements and their collections of what they pretentiously refer to as "graphic novels".
I keed!, I keed! Truly I love you all!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
thanks mr obvious for pointing that out
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
...how much money it takes to train Linux users to use Windows...
They also leave out the financial impact of left-handed, one-eye squirrels who infiltrate offices using Windows to surreptitiously delete random files... because this is a similarly small number.
Dumbass.
How about SuSe, my dad ACCIDENTALLY installed Suse on his laptop on day... Ok, how's that for an easy install. He friggin ACCIDENTALLY installed it.
Best part about it was that after about a day he decided that he didn't want me to put Windows back on it, and he has been using Linux for about 3 months just fine.
He can even use his wireless card which took more than an hour to install in MS. He just plugged it into the pcmcia slot and it beeped at him with Linux.
--Forest C. Adcock--
...that this comes before the first '2005 is the year of Linux on the desktop!!111' prediction. They've been predicting it every single year, and the year when it is declared to be true (whether or not it is), they are beaten to the punch ;).
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
Do you, like grandma, click on every link in sight and then call me about the porn popups?
It seems like you are comparing installing Windows to installing a complete GNU/Linux system. Are you including installing office. Oh, and WinZip, and photoshop and an image viewer (so either grandma or you can browse your collection of kitty pictures) and flash and acrobat and getting the god damned webcam to work and etc, etc, etc?
I'm not really touting anything. I use Fedora. If you like Madrake better, god bless you. If you like windows better, god help you. I don't really care what your preference is, but I will do my best to deflate any FUD.
I'll grant you that it's easiest to eat whatever's in the trough. That didn't seem to be at issue, though.
-Peter
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This is why I always use the term libre software. It makes things more clear. You're going to have to explain the term anways. You might as well start out with something more unambiguous.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I've ACCIDENTALLY had the same thing happen to me at work. I tripped over an ethernet cable in the lab and Bang, SuSE got installed. Lost two W2000 servers this way :)
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
Having read this post I feel like I just sat through another office meeting. :/
By any chance, are you in Marketing or Sales ?
My sister is in Marketing and she sounds like this every once in a while.
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