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Penguin Not Taking Flight Down Under

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the flightless-birds dept.

Bill Bennett writes "New Zealand Reseller News reports that Linux adoption down under is three times lower than North America. From the article: 'Adoption of open source software is slow in the Australasian region according to a report from analyst firm Forrester. Only 18% of the businesses in Australia and New Zealand surveyed for the report were using Linux, while 11% were considering its use. Analyst Sam Higgins says the low rate - three times lower than North America - is because open source is caught between two worlds. He says customers have been conditioned to buy software from vendors and their approved partners.'"

2 of 294 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's called critical mass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's new age hippy bullshit, son.

  2. get over the penguin love by slashk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it's just an operating system.

    and kernel rebuilds make it hard for an enterprises to accept.

    screen shot of a linux kernel panic:

    http://static.flickr.com/38/79844669_3368c9d8a5_s. jpg