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TowerGroup: Linux gaining in financial firms

An analyst company called TowerGroup has put out a press release on the use of Linux in financial firms. "TowerGroup estimates that Linux is now deployed on 14% of total servers at North American brokerage firms. In contrast, Microsoft has 54% of the market (both NT and 2000 combined), while Unix has 27% of the market. However, TowerGroup believes Linux use will grow at an annual rate of 22% in the North American securities server market between 2002 and 2005, outpacing growth in Windows 2000, NT and Unix deployments over that same period."

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W3C board votes for royalty-free patent policy

Bruce Perens reports that after a year of argument and see-sawing, W3C's patent policy board has voted to recommend a royalty-free patent policy. This recommendation will be put in the form of a draft and released for public comment.

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