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Of course, but wait.. people won't notes... right now linux is used 90% of IT departments from one webserver to the whole network... people don't know.... why? cause linux don't have marketing, sales(most of people download it) so is diff to keep traq. plus there are lot of companys with lot of money that know this and take advantage of it and try to shadow linux... making belive the people that only watch TV, or read pc world etc, that cause microsoft products, etc is in every magazine that means is more used in IT. usually people belive that "more seen in media"="more used" now how can you tell that people that nope, that really is linux the one growing... that the actuall stadistics are wrong cause they only record 3 companys and only a 25 % of it... example.. those stats are done with the sales ofr Redhat,Suse and Caldera... and only the sales... not counting the downloads.... were 75% of the IT profesionals download it. plus there are lot other distros... Debian is really the most used... here we go with the marketing issue again.. people don't think so cause is no way to record it... for all the people I know and I talk in conferences,meetings, travels etc I came up with this stats in USA -microsoft is actually going down since 2 years a go in all IT departments... not up like the media says. -Linux is growing at a 190% each year, were the media stats says that is growing fast but at the same pace of micrososf... -of all linux distros --redhat is been the king at desktop and IS department desktop computers... but in the last year Mandrake have got that category and mandrake rule this now. --Debian is the king in the server production side in companys with experienced linux administrators... is been like that from 2 years and continue... -- where Redhat is the choosen one for newbees mobing from windows to Linux, maybe cause they still think that support needs to come from a company not the system administrator.. LOL so they pay twice. I got this info from all the linux systems administrator I have talked in the last 2 years... Meetings, conferences(linuxworld,linuxdevel,USENIX),IRC, other lugs, mailing lists... so the point is... yes it will grow and it will keep growing.. but don't expect to see it on the media or in stocks... cause linux is not made for stocks and comercial shit.. is made from production... is what we can call an undergound OS, is everywhere but nobody whant to see it, or admit it. Christian Fernandez MetroWest Boston LUG Unix/Linux system administrator http://www.linuxbusca.com On Friday 02 November 2001 01:52 pm, you wrote: > Ok, I FINALLY read the article. > > in the article it said: > "I think things are very good for Linux--particularly in a down economy," > Marshall said. "Companies are looking for alternatives to expensive > proprietary systems that they were all too willing to shell out for in the > go-go days." > > That's something I never thought about. Since the economy is starting to > slip, Linux is more attractive because companies are getting thrifty. It's > interesting: A bad economy can actually be better for Linux than a booming > economy. > > ~Alan Monkey Mafia > spacemonkeymafia.com > > --- > Alan's Weblog > http://spacemonkeymafia.com/insomnia/weblog.php > --- > > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail, NO Word docs in e-mail > X > / \ > > _______________________________________________ > Mwblug mailing list > Mwblug at linuxbusca.com > https://gnu.linuxbusca.com/mailman/listinfo/mwblug
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