Gartner: Linux Not About to Do Damage to Windows

By Peter Galli  |  Posted 09-28-2006
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Even though worldwide Linux server operating system revenue is growing rapidly, the open source operating system will come in below both Windows and Unix by 2011, a Gartner analyst says.

PHOENIX—Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of the Linux operating system over the next five years, Gartner analyst George Weiss told attendees at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28.

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