Oh Dear - Linux is pants says Gartner

[AtW]

They are the same guys who said that Itanium will take over the world and will be used by everyone. Of course its a pure coincidence that some of the biggest companies who have vested interest in certain reports are actually their clients and pay many millions per year for services.

Are they just full of sh1t or what?

[DimPrawn]

Linux 2011 Service pack 37 will be superb.

[supremepods]

whats Linux?

[GiGo]

The thing wi' Gartner is you can probably find another of their reports that contradicts this one. It was only a few weeks ago that some talking head from Gartner said something like "a significant portion of the server market will be on Linux by next year" and "Linux will limit Windows growth in the server market".

A market report may be motivated by someone with heaps of cash saying "prove this point for me because I need to overcome some nay-sayers in my organisation".

I don't think the reports are ever intended to be an impartial analysis in a purely intellectual, academic sense, but rather a political tool for a specific client.

[threaded]

The thing wi' Gartner is you can probably find another of their reports that contradicts this one. It was only a few weeks ago that some talking head from Gartner said something like "a significant portion of the server market will be on Linux by next year" and "Linux will limit Windows growth in the server market".

[milanbenes]

that too, but in the main it's because Unix people are up their own backsides.

fortunately having only worked in the windows world you won't know this from personal experience, let this be a lesson for you

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

Is that because Windows admins are more on your intellectual level Milan?

[The Late, Great JC]

Who listens to Gartner anyway?

[milanbenes]

coming more from the application side I have to observe that Windows administrators are much easier to work with as a breed than Unix administrators who appear to be defensive empire builders introducing more complexity to tasks than contributing to the project as a whole

given the choice, on a like for like basis, I'd work with Windows people any day over Unix people.

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.silicon.com/research/spec...9152061,00.htm

Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream' use

Open source is still up to five years away from mainstream use in enterprise IT infrastructures, despite the progress made in the commercialisation of the platform, according to analyst Gartner.

Gartner's latest Linux 'hype cycle' report shows that open source is halfway to maturity but warns the biggest test will be whether it can demonstrate the necessary performance and security to function as a data centre server for mission-critical applications.

Leading-edge businesses are generally still in the early stages of Linux deployments but Gartner expects increased commercialisation and improved storage and systems management for the operating system by the end of 2005, with Linux being used primarily for WebSphere and infrastructure applications on mainframes and web services on blades and racks.

On the desktop, Linux is having a tougher time. Gartner claims the operating system is reaching the point where the costs of migration may exceed the cost benefits in a phase characterised by over-enthusiasm and unrealistic projections which lead to more failures than successes.

The Gartner report highlights the diversity across the open source movement with some markets, such as blade and clustered servers, predicted to be quite advanced while others will fall behind because of the lack of richness in manageability and availability.

The report chimes with the results of silicon.com's own CIO Jury verdict on open source by some of the UK's leading heads of IT. Our survey found that many have now re-evaluated their position on open source after initial enthusiasm two years ago because of concerns over the total cost of ownership and migration.


Better dust off that MS Longhorn beta CD guys.