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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.
In the race to sell database software worldwide, Oracle improved its position to a "virtual tie" with IBM last year, according to a report by researcher Gartner.
The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year fueled in part by sales of Linux.
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