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title: Get These Facts 2
date: 2004-12-16T18:37:58Z
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Another day another [report](http://www.thestreet.com/_tscs/tech/ronnaabramson/10199089.html) showing Linux and open source may be doing better than previously estimated. IDC has had a tough year when when it comes to server market share tracking – some of its biggerst clients even decamped to Gartner for their server market share press releases. So now the company has a new methodology that counts Linux installed on old boxes- a grey market if ever there was one. you mean nobody shipped any boxes but an OS got installed? how can that be? Apparently “Linux is no longer a fringe player”… you don’t say.

**The overall Linux market is far larger than previous estimates show, a new study says.**

In an analysis released late Tuesday, market research firm IDC estimated that the Linux market — including servers, PCs and packaged software — is expected to register a 26% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over five years, reaching a whopping $35.7 billion by 2008.

I guess the chaps and [chapesses](http://www.spikesource.com/management.html#kpolese) at [OpenLogic](http://www.openlogic.com/), [SpikeSource](http://www.spikesource.com/) and [SourceLabs](http://www.sourcelabs.com/), which are trying to help companies build and deploy apps to reliable open source infrastructures, with slightly different approaches, will be asking Santa for IDC subscriptions for Christmas…