Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream' use (silicon.com)
On the desktop, Linux is having a tougher time. Gartner claims the operating system is reaching the point where the costs of migration may exceed the cost benefits in a phase characterised by over-enthusiasm and unrealistic projections which lead to more failures than successes."
Posted Sep 9, 2005 5:40 UTC (Fri)
by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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Posted Sep 9, 2005 10:16 UTC (Fri)
by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
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by gowen (guest, #23914)
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Posted Sep 10, 2005 21:48 UTC (Sat)
by dark (guest, #8483)
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I'm getting pretty tired of reading press about reports when the report itself is unavailable. I did find the abstract for it on the Gartner site:
Some parts of the summary simply don't make sense. Silicon.com claims "Gartner claims the operating system is reaching the point where the costs of migration may exceed the cost benefits". This would mean that Linux is developing in a way that makes the costs of migration go up, right? An extraordinary claim.
Posted Sep 15, 2005 8:07 UTC (Thu)
by jimbo (subscriber, #6689)
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Three years from now, someone in their office's going to say, "Hmmm, about
time we sent out another one of those Linux-is-still-5-years-away
report thingies, I'd better fire up KWord and get it done."
Five years away, yes, they just got the direction wrong
KWord running on FreeBSD of course. Eventually on KDElibs/win32.
Five years away, yes, they just got the direction wrong
Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream' use (silicon.com)
a Garner report concerning the mainstream use of Linux
Well, that's Garner for you. Always the Maverick...
This conclusion is mostly determined by how they define "mainstream". I would say that Linux is already in mainstream use. Gartner probably won't admit to it until Linux is as ubiquitous as Windows is today.
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This open-source operating system is making progress in many respects. But it's still two to five years short of the Plateau of Productivity when it comes to the key prize of becoming a vital aspect of data centers.
So apparently "mainstream" means "becoming a vital aspect of data centers". And notice how silicon.com reported "two to five years" as "five years".
dark wrote:-
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> This would mean that Linux is developing in a way that makes the costs
> of migration go up, right? An extraordinary claim.
You may also wish to consider that the system from which
migration was being contemplated might be developing in ways that
make a migration to Linux more expensive.
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J