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."

Comments

FreeBSD?

[FST777]

Wow, you mean I'm not the only guy on Slashddot that uses FreeBSD? :P

I can't help but wonder why I have no troubles setting up FreeBSD as my desktop, on our new webserver or as automated terminal clients for our Windows Terminal Service while I can't figure out how to use Linux for anything usefull.

Could that have something to do with something called Ports and Packages?

(Seriously, I tried Linux! Several times!)

Re:Everything takes 5 years

[garcia]

Because it worked so well for Russia.

News Flash: Gartner five years too late.

[seppy]

I haven't read it, but the topic is just silly.