[Am-info] STUNTING MICROSOFT'S GROWTH

[Fred A. Miller]

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"According to research firm IDC, Linux server revenue grew 27 percent
worldwide in the third quarter of 2002, even while the overall market for
server computers declined 5.6 percent. Microsoft still owns about 42
percent of that market, IDC says, but Linux is gradually gaining speed wi=
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26 percent of all servers being shipped with the free software. Unix has
about 12 percent.

While nobody predicts that Microsoft will be eclipsed by Linux any time
soon, Berquist said the growth of Linux in the datacenter -- the
centralized stacks of computers used to run the networks of far-flung
organizations -- could stunt the software giant's growth in the long-term=
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That's because right now, Microsoft is all-powerful at the department
level, running the computers that house business software programs, e-mai=
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systems and file and printer servers."

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If you listen on a quiet nite you, can hear
the sound of a Windows 2000 Server reboot.
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