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Friday, August 19, 2005

Microsoft unaffected by Linux

ITWeb:

The strengthening position of Linux and open source in the local and global arena is not leading to attrition of Microsoft's market share, which still has a huge hold on the worldwide market, a study on the Linux open source software and services market in SA has revealed.

BMI-TechKnowledge research manager Roy Blume told journalists yesterday that Linux has captured a small share of global paid client operating environment shipments since 2000, a trend expected to continue into 2007.

Shipments of Linux as a client-operating environment, he said, have been growing swiftly since novice-ready commercial versions of this software were introduced in the late1990s.

However, Linux market share is increasing at a slower rate due to the overwhelming position held by Microsoft's pervasively deployed client-operating environment products.

Like we needed a heads-up that desktop Linux was a non-event. What I'd really like to see is Apple continue (and accelerate) it's attack on Microsoft's desktop monopoly.

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