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(Source: ComputerWorld, Aug. 4, 1997)
For Unix, the best may be yet to come.
The year 2000 issue and the growing demand for servers to run large
data warehouse applications will power a steep increase in high-end Unix server growth over the next few years.
Unix will continue to take a hammering from NT in the low-end server
and workstation space. But in the market for database and large
application servers, Unix will grow from sales of $20 billion last year to $40 billion in 2000, according to an upcoming report from Aberdeen Group, Inc. in Boston. [..]
Although Aberdeen's figures are the most optimistic yet for Unix
growth, research firms such as IDC, Gartner Group, Inc. and Forrester
Research, Inc. have predicted that at the high end at least, Unix will
continue a strong showing for the next few years. [..]
``A lot of people are using year 2000 as an excuse to move all their
applications away from their mainframes'' to Unix, said David
Krauthamer, MIS manager at Parker Hannifin Corp. in Rohnert Park, Calif. ``But the real value of Unix is going to be in its use as database servers'', with NT running most of the front-end applications.
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