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.

[nschubach]

A bit off topic, but why does everyone call gnutoo, Twitter?

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[nschubach]

So there's more than one person in this world that dislikes Microsoft... this is news? I'm looking through the history here and it seems like twitter is a very adamant Microsoft hater. Maybe he has followers. Maybe there are more than a few people who agree. Is that hard to believe? I myself happen to dislike a lot of the moves they are making even today. So what?

Has Slashdot proven that these are both from the same IP? What makes you justified in comparing the two and spamming every post he/she/they make? What skin did he/she/they pull off your back? Is your life that meaningless that you have enough time to dedicate to this crusade?

I don't even know why I bother responding to an AC. How about logging in so we can have a meaningful conversation with your history and intentions known.

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[rtb61]

What is really interesting is this whole off topic twitter discussion is strangely enough reflective of the whole mass media B$ marketing style. Is any end user really opposed to open source software or is it really just a mass media PR=B$ campaign, you take our advertising money, so you will write stories that reflect our ideology while making sure those stories do not look like adds.

Millions of troll post marketing one thing or another, millions of other posts attacking one idea or another. Like that whole twitter thing, there obviously seems to be far more going on in the background than is reflected in the posts. Those posting squabbles, whilst attacking and promoting ideas and people often do seek to hide what is really going on and create a false impression of the underlying reality reality.

I will always remember the microtrolls who haunted Linux forums and attacked newbies attempting to drive them away while pretending to be peguinistas. Gartners take on the issue is reflected in the word it choose to use, a stealth takeover, somehow sneaking up on the customers with out the customers choice, an attempt to create a negative out of a positive and extend the life of proprietary monopoly extortion.

The reality is FOSS is out and completely in the public, it's direction is driven by it's users, it is naturally forced in the direction they prefer, else it lacks users and contributors. FOSS simply makes clear economic sence, in the case of windows and M$ office, it simply means that those revenues will remain with the end user and not get siphoned off and wasted, and much more importantly costs associated with the unrequested upgrades, retraining, free beta testing often 10 to 100 times the cost of using poorly implemented proprietary software will largely be eliminated.

Perhaps a slashdot poll on the whole 'twitter' issue might bring to light some interesting and humorous stories.