The state of enterprise Linux

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“Through 2007, the Linux market will surpass $9 billion in revenue, approaching 18 percent of total shipped revenues on an initial acquisition basis … Linux sales will tend toward high-volume, low-priced commodity platform shipments, as opposed to heavily configured (that is, with large memory, CPUs and attached storage) systems of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems.”

Link: Gartner Group analysis on ZDNet