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Study: Linux sales down, but not out (News.com)

News.com reports on the latest IDC study on Linux server sales. "'The Linux operating system market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total operating system revenue each year, or roughly two days' worth of Microsoft's operating system revenue,' [IDC analyst Al] Gillen said. 'On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year).'"
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