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Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream
wellington wrote to mention a ZDNet blurb about a Gartner group study. Gartner indicates that 'mainstream' use of open source in IT environments may be 5 years away. From the article: "Gartner's latest Linux 'hype cycle' report shows that open source is halfway to maturity but warns the biggest test will be whether it can demonstrate the necessary performance and security to function as a data centre server for mission-critical applications. Leading-edge businesses are generally still in the early stages of Linux deployments but Gartner expects increased commercialisation and improved storage and systems management for the operating system by the end of 2005, with Linux being used primarily for WebSphere and infrastructure applications on mainframes and web services on blades and racks."
Having just switched to linux and having all kinds of problems, done all kinds of googling, read all kinds of docs and been subjected to all kinds of unhelpful linux geeks in gibberish irc channels I completely agree.
Another selfish plug for someones stupid blog, and using your Karma. Pathetic.
well better tell my mom, my dad, and my girlfriend they arent allowed to use it anymore
From what I can tell Gartner is full of idiots.
Does anyone remember back in 1999 or 2000 when they gave linux a 1 in 10 chance of making it out of the niche market?
Since then I've seen dozens of stupid or obvious Gartner predictions go by.
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Thanks expert. You just proved my point.
"There are people who would much rather use a more secure OS than Windows, and know about Linux, but really just cannot be bothered working around some of the more ass-backwards systems."
That's personal choice. Now go buy a Mac.
its called apt-get jackass! try it out! If you want Linux that is grandma style easy, use ubuntu or maybe SuSe since they have YAST.