Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU

RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year. ... [Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation] sees Linux and the FOSS ecosystem surrounding it as having insurmountable advantages in any market over its main competitor Windows — advantages that an economic downturn only intensifies. At a time when a search for the lowest possible price point is happening in such areas as notebooks, FOSS is available at no cost. It is easy to rebrand and customize in a way that Windows Isn't, and is also technically more efficient."

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time wasted in pointless tasks....

[N!NJA]

Linux might get an extra 1% market share in the business environment in 2009. but not at home. at least not until Auntie Mary can figure out how to use the OS.

if the zealots spent as much time simplifying the GUI and unifying the distros as they spend touting the OS, 2004 would have been the year of the Linux Desktop!

Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share

[symbolset]

We only need another 4 companies in that sample to get a 50% market share increase!

So we're being trite, are we? Well it would be as fair to say that Microsoft partners are going out of business.

But that would be redundant. Microsoft eats their young, your young, and you if you don't move fast enough.

For credit, name one company that successfully engaged in a partnership with Microsoft, disengaged, and survived. One.

Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share

[Hurricane78]

For the load of crap that OOo is, this is actually a very good number. Maybe it's, because MS office is not much better.

I really miss Lotus SmartSuite. (The latest edition is just way too outdated.) :(