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Linux Now 25% of Dell's Server Business
Sam Haine '95 writes to mention a ZDNet article discussing Linux's place in the server market, at least for Dell Computers. Linux now makes up over 25% of the company's server business, and has become such a standard that they only need to confer with Red Hat for some 10% of service calls. From the article: "Linux and open source have been a blessing for Dell as it has struggled to make an impression, other than as a desktop and laptop supplier, in enterprise computing, According to Martin Hingley, vice-president of the European Systems Group at analysts IDC, part of the problem for Dell in the enterprise is that 'people don't like partnering with Dell.'"
A would like to point out that you can buy very useful documents from the IDC through Amazon. For instance, this 10 page PDF entitled Attacking Application Infrastructure Configuration Complexity can be downloaded for a mere $3,500.00 USD. Yeah, there's around 8600 over priced market forecasts and analyses available on Amazon.
If you're looking for a 1 page PDF with romance, adventure & a criticism of day to day life through the eyes of an electronic device, check out the IDC's No PSP for the Holidays for a mere $750.00 USD. As you can see by the customer comments, this is a very satisfying purchase.
Does anyone actually pay this much money for these? If they do, how can they be sure that IDC knows the future?
Assuming the IDC does know what it's talking about, I find their analysis of mobile operating systems to be the most interesting. This is an area of OSs (or real time OSs) where Microsoft is losing footing. Symbian seems to be increasingly dominating that market with Microsoft & Linux neck and neck. By the way, don't bother to pay the $3500 USD for that article, the press release will suffice.
With the IDC also predicting mobile device sales to skyrocket, what does this tell you about Linux? Maybe Linux has lost the desktop war but it doesn't matter because the future is filled with concentrations on extremely small mobile devices and the servers that they connect to?
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