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Unpaid deployments

Posted Nov 16, 2009 16:31 UTC (Mon) by blitzkrieg3 (subscriber, #57873)
In reply to: Unpaid deployments by jspaleta
Parent article: Notes from the LF End User Summit

He said something along the lines of:

"If you asked me two years ago about the adoption of unpaid linux, I'd have said that it would mostly get converted to paid linux. That's not what happened."

The graph looked mostly linear for both. I could go into more detail but I believe he is going to post the slides somewhere.


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Unpaid deployments

Posted Nov 16, 2009 17:23 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

Just to clarify... which "he" are you referring to? Brian Stevens or Carlos Montero-Luque or were you referring to Al Gillen's comments during his IDC presentation?

-jef"pronouns kills"spaleta

Unpaid deployments

Posted Nov 16, 2009 17:25 UTC (Mon) by blitzkrieg3 (subscriber, #57873) [Link]

Al Gillen's comments during his IDC presentation

Unpaid deployments

Posted Nov 16, 2009 17:42 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

That's an interesting quote about revising 2 year old market evolution expectations coming from the perspective of a 3rd party analyst. It would definitely be interesting to know how the IDC estimates the number of unpaid versus paid deployments for the purposes of producing the aforementioned graphs.

-jef

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