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.

[Macthorpe]

That's bloody hilarious. I'd recommend anybody who believes this to go read a few posts from those accounts, compare them, and then get back to me. I have nothing to hide, so I won't try and deflect your attention from doing so with "ohnoes this is a hatefest you must have no life" comments from one of my so-called 'sockpuppets'.

Here's a hint to go with it - I don't need more than one account to get my point across, because I don't lie and my karma isn't in the toilet.

Enjoy yourselves.

Re:How can you "admit" a prediction?

[JohnFluxx]

you can admit that you think something.

If I think Microsoft will destroy linux, but I'm ashamed of that, then I could come out and admit that I think Microsoft will win..

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[Ash Vince]

I just looked through your post history. You seem to look for posts by Twitters alter egos and runnish them all. Are you conducting a concerted campaign against him? Do you spend your entire time looking for Twitter posts to try and rubbish his points without reading them? That is how it appears to me.

Is Twitter the only reason you read slashdot? Personally I read it for interesting tech related news stories and the occasional decent debate but looking through your recent post history you look like Twitters stalker. Do you have any idea how goddamn sad that makes you look. Get a life.

The pair of you probably have a lot in common, ever thought of proposing marriage?

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[Macthorpe]

Do you have any idea how goddamn sad that makes you look. You seem to be confused about how much I care about other people's opinions of what I do, especially yours.