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IDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010 (internetnews.com)
internetnews.com
covers a prediction by IDC on the future value of the Linux ecosystem.
"At the Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit, which kicked off today in New York, IDC analysts detailed where they see the Linux ecosystem today and where it is headed by 2010.
For 2006, Al Gillen, research vice president of system software at IDC, told an early morning audience that the research firm has pegged the Linux ecosystem that includes servers and software to be worth $18 billion. By 2010, Gillen said, the market will be worth $40 billion."
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IDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010 (internetnews.com) Posted Feb 15, 2007 20:37 UTC (Thu) by bug1 (subscriber, #7097) [Link] So software Freedom must be worth a big chunk of that $18 billion as without it "Linux" wouldn't work... i wonder if IDC is going to make similar announcement about how much peace or happiness is worth ?
"Accountants know the price of everything and the value of nothing" - some famous dude
IDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010 (internetnews.com) Posted Feb 15, 2007 22:43 UTC (Thu) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768) [Link] Yup it is the economists that can give you the value. :P
IDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010 (internetnews.com) Posted Feb 17, 2007 16:53 UTC (Sat) by dune73 (subscriber, #17225) [Link] There are people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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