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Gartner: Linux Not About to Do Damage to Windows

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Peter Galli
Peter Galli
Sep 28, 2006
1 minute read

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.

In fact, in terms of worldwide server operating system revenue, Linux would come in below both Windows and Unix by 2011 in spite of its enormous growth, he told attendees in a session entitled “Enterprise Linux: Has it Arrived?”

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While Linux would account for some $12 billion in worldwide server operating system revenue in five years time, significantly up from the $8.3 billion predicted for 2006, Unix worldwide server operating system revenue was expected to come in at $15.9 billion by 2011, with Windows revenue leading the pack at $22.5 billion, Weiss said.

But Weiss noted that new Unix implementations will be in decline by 2011, with Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris providing an effective alternative to Linux.

Read the full story on eWEEK.com: Gartner: Linux Not About to Do Damage to Windows

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