Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @01:25AM from the still-neat-on-the-server-right dept.

eastbayted writes "Tom Yager at InfoWorld predicts: 'At the end of the decade, we'll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the second most popular general client and server computing platform behind Windows.' That's not a gloom-and-doom omen for the ever-popular Linux kernel, though, he stresses. While Apple and Microsoft will grapple for dominance of client and server spaces, Linux will be 'the de facto choice for embedded solutions.' And by 'embedded,' Yager means 'specialized.' With a push of a button and a flip of switch, he predicts, you'll be able to create a configured database and a mated J2EE server — all thanks to Linux."

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Re:Not really by Nutria · 2006-08-30 01:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

With the fact that virtually all advances in the computing world have been either inspired by or utilized for the distribution of pornography,

Well heck, that's not very broad of a statement, is it?

this could truly redefine the "embedded" market.

Oh, wait, you're trying to be funny. Ha ha. Not.

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