Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.
A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts suggested in a research note published this week.
Proponents of open source and proprietary software are exchanging blows "on the wrong battleground" said Gartner Research vice president Andrea Di Maio today.
At Gartner ITxpo, CEO Michael Fleisher predicts that supplier consolidation plus renewed capital spending spells recovery in 2004. But vendors should take care: enterprises have learned some hard lessons.
OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner.
A market research report on database sales last year found that Oracle has the most market share and that revenue from databases overall grew slightly last year.
To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
Industry watchers claim Sun Microsystems is playing a dangerous game with its decision to position Solaris as open source -- a move which will see it go head to head with Linux.
Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
Linux supporters must make a viable alternative to Office says Ellison--the products on the market just don't cut it.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
The new version of Microsoft's widespread Office software package won't likely spur immediate mass upgrades among businesses upon its release, analysts said, due in part to a complex set of added features.
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