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CIO Update: What You Should Know About IBM's Linux Strategy (ZDNet)
ZDNet has the latest Gartner Group pronouncement on IBM's Linux strategy, complete with lots of pretty diagrams and the "Midrange Server Magic Quadrant."
"Gartner estimates that IBM can trace to Linux about $1.2 billion in revenue in 2002 (hardware, software and services), and we project strong overall revenue and profit for IBM from Linux during the next five years."
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CIO Update: What You Should Know About IBM's Linux Strategy (ZDNet) Posted May 28, 2003 18:00 UTC (Wed) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link] More rubbish from Gartner. The real key to reading any Gartner report isrecognising when they support their statements and when they don't. Point in case -- the article's "bottom line" (funnily enough, this is usually at the top of the article when you read it from their site.) - the only part most people really read, after looking at the pictures - states: "Enterprises should exercise caution in zSeries and pSeries Linux deployments. The xSeries will be IBM's main platform for Linux during the upcoming five-year planning period." They don't, anywhere, give any solid background or reasoning for why caution should be excercised, besides some vague smoke and mirrors and hand-waving at the end of the piece. However, they are attempting to influence multi-million dollar deals with that statement. Gartner is really no better then the next advertorial, and their output should be treated as such.
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