Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over

ZDOne writes "In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to analyst Gartner — which has up to now been fairly cautious, or downright negative, in its previous predictions about community developed software. '"By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,' predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a 'stealth' impact for the technology in embedded form: "Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition.'"

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Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[timmarhy]

"my whole family uses GNU/Linux "

GNU/Linux? RMS is that you???

but seriously, what you are really saying there is your family doesn't use youtube,ipods and that your kids don't play any computer games.

YOU'RE the one who's clueless, Flamebait!

[KWTm]

I see you've been modded flamebait. Good for the mods.

As an experiment I wiped a spare machine of Windows 2000 (which my 10 year old daughter was so fond of) and installed a copy of Ubuntu 7.10 on it. After 1 month of struggling with learning the machine, she won't even touch that computer.

Well, you probably biased her against it then. A lot of my relatives are using Ubuntu, they love it, and they are not having any problems with it.

What a self-centred, egotistical and rude statement to make. The GP poster gives a case example where a 10-year-old child familiar with Windows didn't adapt to Ubuntu. You're saying that this is the fault of the GP poster. As evidence, you state that you know some people who, unlike the GP's daughter, do enjoy using Ubuntu. It reminds me of a joke about how Microsoft supports its software:

Q: How many Microsoft phone support people does it take to change a Microsoft Lightbulb for Windows(tm)?

A: Why, what's wrong with your lightbulb? I have the exact same copy of your lightbulb right here, and it works fine.

It boggles the imagination how you could possibly think that because you know some people who like Ubuntu, there must be something wrong if there exists someone else who doesn't like Ubuntu. Did you ask what sorts of applications GP's daughter uses? What programs she had been used to on Win2000? Why she didn't like Ubuntu? Whether she often used other machines (e.g. at school)?

And while I'll tough it out (to my extreme dismay) and learn Linux and other free systems, truthfully, I just don't like them

You know, nobody gives a damn what you use or don't use. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Actually, people do give a very big damn about people like the GP and his daughter, since they are the ones that will determine the place of desktop Linux in mainstream computing, and how much hardware manufacturers will pay attention to the demand for Linux-compatible drivers.

Not to mention that the extra effort you put into being sarcastic in your post would have been better used for generating about 3 ergs of non-fossil-fuel-based energy. Yes, I know you're trolling, and that right now you're masturbating to the fact that someone's actually answering you. I just want to make sure people like the GP and others know that it is indeed useful for the Linux community to know about their experiences with Linux and what can be done to make them better. Hope your account (isn't a nick like "nguy" tantamount to saying "I'm a sock puppet"?) gets downmodded to hell.