> Did anyone form here see this? > Thoughts?? Couple observations:
1) They're counting only RHEL and SLES. Doesn't count Ubuntu, which seems to power most of the netbooks where there seems to be significant expansion both on the desktop and in the data center (same OS on desktop and server gets points). 2) As noted: in a tight economy, don't fix it if it ain't broke. If people have working stuff, they aren't messing with it. We've finally made the point IMHO that people are the expensive part of IT, and that's what companies are economizing on: people. It takes a lot less people to run what you have rather than try to do something new. 3) I think the virtualization angle is somewhat specious. People just aren't buying hardware if they can avoid it, thus fewer licenses. 4) The support market for Linux is finally maturing to the point that the major vendors aren't the only game in town, and there is a lot of customized distribution creation going on, which isn't counted in this. Cf Scientific Linux, embedded Linux devices, etc. Seemed FUDish. --d b ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
