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Richard Royston wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: RR> Did you see Denise Caruso's Technology column (it was actually RR> 2 columns long) in the business section of the New York Times RR> on Monday? She says that according to Dataquest, linux owns RR> over 35% of the "sub-$25,000 network server market", which was RR> supposed to be part of Microsoft's NT lunch! Oh, wow! Would I love to see the raw data behind that! My main question would be how Dataquest defines a "network server." If they include web servers, then there is no question that Linux has a huge chunk of this market, and rightly so. If they mean file/print servers, the traditional domain of Novell NetWare and now Windows NT Server, I would be shocked. I think Linux/Samba is extremely popular in the educational market and outside the U.S. Generally, Linux is a good economic deal wherever labor is cheaper than computer hardware and software. I see a lot of messages about Linux as a network server from people in colleges in India or Russia, where there may be a lot of technical expertise but no money. -- Mike
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