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IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-of-course-it-is dept.

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."

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  1. Linus by simgod · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, communism was mainstream too - take that you cat breeder.
    Linus=Stalin
    Stallman=Trotsky
    Linux=Communism
    this_post="-1"

  2. Honest Al? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While I haven't RTFA, I have a comment on ol' Al. If he is the same Al Gillen that was editor of ENT magazine a few years back, then he's the man who published an "edited" letter of mine in his magazine. The problem was that he "edited" it to say the exact opposite of my original.