The Linux Foundation today is releasing its annual Enterprise End User Report. Because this is the third year we've surveyed the world's largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation's End User Council about Linux adoption, we're able to share some interesting trending data.
Linux has vaulted to 1.4 percent worldwide desktop market share from 0.97 percent in July, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, a new Linux Foundation survey on enterprise adoption of Linux indicates that 84 percent of organizations currently using the open source operating system have expanded their deployments over the last year. Meanwhile,...
Marketwatch just released an article that will interest Linux users. According to this article, while overall global server revenues were down, Linux server revenues were increasing.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), Linux dedicated servers generated $2.4 billion in revenue for vendors in the first quarter of 2012.
With 94% or almost 635m new PCs shipped by the end of 2011 to come with Windows 7, and on 42% of all PCs in total, Microsoft’s Vista replacement is slowly but surely making its way up the charts, as Apple posts small gains and Linux based operating systems remain “niche”.
Microsoft Windows has long been the operating system of choice for corporate level desktop PCs, but times change. There are a number of drivers that are pushing Linux into the domain of the end user device from the enterprise server space; such as tablets, smartphones and the 20 million desktop PCs and countless server installations using the free Ubuntu Linux operating system.
IDC says the smartphone market & is in high-growth mode again,& with a growth rate more than double that of the overall phone market. Outpacing even the fourth quarter of 2009, 1Q 2010 shipments reached 54.7 million units, up 56.7 percent year-over-year, the market research firm says....
Ubuntu 10.04: The Year of the Ubuntu LinuxDespite the plethora of Linux distributions where everyone can choose for every need (Supercomputing, Home Server, Webserver, Home desktop, Netbook, etc) the operating system, Ubuntu Linux (of Canonical) has succeeded in a uRead More...
Linux is a highly developed, stable and advanced operating system – this, I will never question. It comes in every conceivable flavour – from server solutions that simply work (again, this cannot be argued with) to desktop releases with more software than anyone could possibly ever need.So what’s the problem? Why, in the year 2011 is Linux still not ready for the desktop?
Hey thereI have been using linux for a little over a year now and I am getting an extra laptop ready to solely run a lightweight distro of linux and decided to go with crunchbang.
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