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To: Jerry Olson who wrote (93695)	4/17/2000 11:36:00 AM
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OFFICIAL: Linux is the fastest growing O/S. Friday, 14th April 2000 Email this story to a friend Sponsored By: Everybody and their dogs sister has been saying that Linux is a great technology but just yesterday IDC gave it the official seal of approval and called it a truly 'Hot Technology.' According to the latest findings of a report from the popular research company, last year saw Linux shipments increase at a staggering pace. Although the operating system currently only represents around 6% of the worldwide operating system sales, from the final quarter of 1998 to the same period in 1999, the volume of shipments grew an astonishing 166% - taking overall shipments to 72,422 for the final quarter of 1999. This, IDC claims, is simply because Linux servers are well priced with strong reliability and availability features ? hence the hot technology thing ? and as such it predicts that the Linux marketplace will become an increasingly important area of growth. The study however also unveiled some statistics about shipments that some of the vendors will be a little disappointed about. Compaq will be as happy as can be with the news that it holds the Linux server shipments crown ? with around 25% of the market or 18,000 shipments. But IBM will no doubt be a little disappointed that it came a very respectable second, with 10% of all Linux shipments in the last quarter of 1999, considering all of the money it has spent on positioning itself as a Linux market winner ? although the $3 million it gained from sales of the O/S will have gone someway to compensating that. Hewlett-Packard managed to sneak into third position with 7% of overall shipments, although it fell slightly on revenue into third position behind Dell with $24 million in sales. And Dell took the fourth place with 7% or just over 5,000 shipments. If you take just a moment to step back and look at these figures it is really quite staggering. Not only that Linux really is making the kind of waves that people have been making unsubstantiated claims about for months. But also that Compaq has such phenomenal clout in a market that you really wouldn't associate with a company that has for a long-time been regarded as the bastion of the Wintel alliance. Just shows you, there really is life outside Wintel.