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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: slave on 17 November 2002, 05:30

Title: Linux poised for desktop failure: Gartner
Post by: slave on 17 November 2002, 05:30

"Despite a recent surge in interest in Linux, it will fail to make much of an impression on the desktop, claims a Gartner analyst."

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20269971,00.htm (http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20269971,00.htm)

Title: Linux poised for desktop failure: Gartner
Post by: voidmain on 17 November 2002, 05:39

And in the same breath Gartner said Linux server shipments will double next year (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/28132.html). Gartner are also the ones that said that everyone should stop using IIS immediately and use Apache because Microsoft is incompetent when it comes to security. Which Gartner do we believe? But Linux has already won in every place I care about so....

Title: Linux poised for desktop failure: Gartner
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 17 November 2002, 17:45

Even if liux just gets 5% of the desktop market thats not a failure is it?  Its more than apple's share.