{"id":92,"date":"2004-12-16T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=92"},"modified":"2004-12-16T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T18:37:58","slug":"get-these-facts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/get-these-facts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Get These Facts 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_tscs\/tech\/ronnaabramson\/10199089.html\">report<\/a> 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 &#8211; 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 &#8220;Linux is no longer a fringe player&#8221;&#8230; you don&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p><b>The overall Linux market is far larger than previous estimates show, a new study says.<\/p>\n<p>In an analysis released late Tuesday, market research firm IDC estimated that the Linux market &#8212; including servers, PCs and packaged software &#8212; is expected to register a 26% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over five years, reaching a whopping $35.7 billion by 2008. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I guess the chaps and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesource.com\/management.html#kpolese\">chapesses<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlogic.com\/\">OpenLogic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesource.com\/\">SpikeSource<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcelabs.com\/\">SourceLabs<\/a>, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day another report 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 &#8211; some of its biggerst clients even decamped to Gartner for their server market share press releases. So now the company has a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}