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Linux growth 'to outstrip Windows by a factor of 3' (Oracle Estimate)
Builder.com ^ | 30 March 2006 | Matthew Overington

Posted on 03/31/2006 2:02:29 PM PST by N3WBI3

Over the next five years, Oracle is predicting annual growth of 12 percent for the open source OS

Linux adoptions are to grow in the next three to five years at nearly triple the rate of Windows, according to Oracle.

In an interview at the LinuxWorld conference in Sydney, the database company suggested Linux deployments had grown beyond an adoption phase, and were now becoming ubiquitous in small and large businesses alike.

Monica Kumar, director of Oracle's Linux programme office, pointed to the open source operating system becoming mainstream as "businesses are looking to Linux as a way to save money," and quotes a projected annual growth rate of 11.7 percent over the next five years. The software heavyweight claims analysts project Windows' growth over the same period as being 3.6 percent per year.

"We don't come across many big companies these days that don't have a Linux strategy, which is in contrast to the market three years ago," says Kumar.

It's not just enterprise customers leading the charge, though. "Small [companies] are now betting their businesses on Linux".

Kumar points to market awareness and a growing number of Linux-savvy developers in developing countries to drive the uptake, and suggests open standards are a huge driver.

"Linux is mainstream. There are a lot of questions that we used to get maybe two years ago where people used to say: 'Is Linux really ready for the enterprise? Can you give me some proof points? Who's deploying it? ...I need to prove the ROI or TCO to my CIO about Linux'. It's been two years and I don't get that question anymore."

She also goes on to point out a shift in adoption drivers: from the developers at the front line to the CIOs.

"We're now seeing adoption driven from the CIOs, instead of from the individual developers, and it's allowing Linux to pick up momentum."

The company has recently released a free version of its flagship database product in an attempt to woo developers towards Oracle technologies.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: capitalism; gebait; linux; opensource; oracle
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To: All; FLAMING DEATH
Take his post 126 verbatim. It applies here too...
161 posted on 04/04/2006 3:07:03 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (This Space For Rent. Call 555-1212 for more info.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Lookie, it's that college kid who tries to claim Stallman is just a "fringe radical" rather than the obvious leader of open source. To me he's a fringe radical, but not to you. Just the facts, of course.


162 posted on 04/04/2006 3:39:40 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: ThePythonicCow
5 - Insightful. </slashdot>
163 posted on 04/04/2006 3:44:34 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (When Bush says "we mustn't act like clowns," the RATS don their multi-colored wigs and greasepaint.)
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To: All; FLAMING DEATH
I'm not the only one who's shown that RMS is a fringe Nutt. Others here have said the same thing--most notably, Flaming Death.

Second, prove it where I defended Stallman. Or, here's another format of looking at it.

1. If it can't be proven that OSS advocates here have defended Stallman, then it can't be proven that Stout has defended Stallman.

2.It can't be proven that OSS advocates have defended Stallman.

3. Thus it follows that it can't be proven Stout has defended Stallman. (MP)

Apparently, the quality of English here among some here is sorely lacking...

Finally, how many times must it be said: While OSS can equal FSF--FSF does NOT equal OSS!!!

164 posted on 04/04/2006 4:00:41 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (This Space For Rent. Call 555-1212 for more info.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Ha ha! Yeah, and look right below that at post #126!!! Post 125 is not even my post, idiot! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Wow, this just gets better every second!

My question (which you didn't answer) was, "What keeps one from using a workstation as a desktop?"

From that question, you somehow came up with the idea that I didn't know the difference, and declared yourself victorious. What a moron! BTW, did you ever answer the question? Maybe you don't know! Ha ha! I'm still waiting for the answer to that, by the way...

Wow. According to my post #126, that was day 3 of the "Let's See If Turkey Can Back Up His Doltish Spouting With One Cold, Hard Fact"-A-Thon. That would put my original request at 3/9. So, we're coming up on a month now, and not one post of mine have you presented here that was a lie. You have posted my entire posting history, as well as several posts that YOU have made, but nothing specific that I said. Speaks volumes, don'tcha think?

When you're going back to find your own posts, don't you think that you could just find one of the supposedly numerous lies that I've supposedly said? Supposedly?

But all the while, none of your posturing and spinning in circles changes the fact that you still haven't presented a single "lie" that I've posted here about anything.

Why not? Seems like it would be easy, if I lie like you say I do...

Hello?

*crickets chirping*


165 posted on 04/04/2006 4:15:09 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: Golden Eagle

Good grief. You just like keeping me busy on that "GE Lie/Hypocrisy List", don't you? It'll take me hours to deal with all your spewing on this thread alone.

Might be time to buy some webspace...


166 posted on 04/04/2006 4:17:34 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: Dominic Harr

One thing I gotta say for him...B2K never melted down like GE does. B2K was like GE with a lot more common sense.


167 posted on 04/04/2006 4:21:03 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: ShadowAce

See, told you he'd lie some more, just can't stop obviously.


168 posted on 04/04/2006 4:46:02 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: FLAMING DEATH

169 posted on 04/04/2006 4:54:08 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Golden Eagle; stainlessbanner
Posts 88-91 of this very thread. I exposed his linux lie and he attacked me for it, and put up flamer's list of lies.

This is your post 91:

To: stainlessbanner

It's obvious who the liars are. This thread is a definite keeper.

91 posted on 04/04/2006 1:20:35 AM EDT by Golden Eagle
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Yes, it's quite obvious. But in a sublime twist, I doubt you'd agree as to the meaning of those statements. I think you know what I mean.

170 posted on 04/04/2006 5:03:09 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Thanks for the generous rating.

Your post is stunningly out of place on this thread, I'm afraid -- like a flower in a dung heap.

Oh well ...

171 posted on 04/04/2006 5:06:14 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Feeling much like I am beating the proverbial dead horse, I am still going to ask; what part of 165 was a lie?

And, be specific. Avoid generalized statements like, "All of it." or "This entire thread is nothing but lies", even though such avoidance techniques, although completely without merit, are hallmarks of your "debating" style.

Could you do that for me, snookums?


172 posted on 04/04/2006 6:35:08 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: FLAMING DEATH

Plenty, you said you never posted on the dell threads and I never linked them, both lies blown to hell in post 160.


173 posted on 04/04/2006 8:26:17 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Petronski

As any casual observer would already know, this board is infested with threads full of linux lies, many of which have lies in the parent articles. Witness this quick list of just the last couple of months!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1607069/posts - Lies claiming Windows only has 40% market share and VMWare kernel is linux based

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1608956/posts - Lies that Windows systems need to be rebuilt after compromise but not linux ones

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605189/posts - Lies that the Kapital program in linux has nothing to do with Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1604720/posts - Lies that Osama Bin Laden doesn't get a free copy of linux if he wants, and that stallman isn't a central figure in the OSS community, and that I work for Microsoft

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1601565/posts - Lies that Beowulf clusters couldn't exist without free software, and that American citizens can't have access to free software unless the chinese, cubans, russians, iranians, etc do too

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1527747/posts - Lies that open source was designed to co-exist with proprietary software, that I don't support companies that use some open source in their proprietary operating systems like Apple and Sun, that stallman doesn't oppose patents, that Microsoft shared source has the same dangers as open source, and ridiculous claims that I'm the one that whines to the moderator around here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602047/posts - Lies that *nix can't get viruses spyware or trojans, that it's easier to setup and run linux than windows, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1592292/posts - Follow up lies to the original threads that Dell is offereing linux on their desktop models when they aren't, that stallman's following is small, and of course the flamer denying he ever posts on the linux lie threads

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1592494/posts - Lies that IBM is not going to ever use Microsoft Vista but only linux

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591595/posts - Lies that it's easy to deploy linux even though IBM can't do it themselves

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590132/posts - Lies that most open source zealots don't approve of stallman, that our government should always use the lowest cost option even if it came from foreigners

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591021/posts - Lies that a fully patched Windows box can be hacked by anyone in minutes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1585665/posts - Lies that Dell is going to announce linux on home desktop computers, that I'm the one that always whines to the moderators, that the original article wasn't retracted by the author, that other articles don't indicate it's almost impossible to get a Dell desktop with linux, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1584107/posts - Lies that open source doesn't equal open borders, that "copyleft" has nothing to do with politics, that open source is more capitalistic than proprietary software LOL, that n3wbi3 cared that 75% of all open source uses stallman's license, about how large linux's market share is, that the free software foundation didn't confiscate code from its users, that stallman isn't anti-capitalist and the leader of the open source movement, that Torvalds didn't do a 180 when confronted by Stallman on GPL3, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1578925/posts - Lies by some foreign rag that linux is easier to manage than windows, that it's safe to go to hacker sites for your security updates, that microsoft.com doesn't almost always have longer uptime than linux companies, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1573697/posts - Lies that Red Flag is based on Asianux and not Red Hat LOL, that no one in china is a communist at all which is amazing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1573397/posts - Lies that Teddy Kennedy's various sites run on Microsoft IIS and not linux (several whoppers), about linux's market share size, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571222/posts - Lies that n3wbi3's "open source" ping list was actually open source, that free software for russia is no more dangerous than free software for germany, that it's somehow worse to sell technology to adversaries than to just give it to them for free, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568785/posts - Lies that you have to upgrade Office for legal protection, that linux and other open source provides equal legal protection to proprietary software LMAO that was funny

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568067/posts - Lies that good eyes verses bad eyes can ever be quantified,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568848/posts - Lie that google is releasing a linux operating system, that Microsoft is hurting and not recording record profits, that quality of open source exceeds that of proprietary software, that Google Earth is compatible with linux, that I referred to the Cert vulnerability database as "linux" problems, that these guys don't live their lives by stallman's principles, etc




174 posted on 04/04/2006 8:30:59 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: All
This goes back to the saying "People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones"

These are more examples of someone getting their butt kicked on Linux threads--namely by trolling and posting ridiculous baloney.

175 posted on 04/04/2006 9:28:17 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (This Space For Rent. Call 555-1212 for more info.)
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To: FLAMING DEATH; Dominic Harr; N3WBI3; ShadowAce

Document dump ping.


176 posted on 04/04/2006 10:11:03 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Golden Eagle
Are you just angry b/c Microsoft doesn't have an answer for ESX? Dr. Rosenblum is a pretty sharp guy and he's built an excellent hypervisor technology which happens to not be based on Windows.

You have a bad case of OS paranoia, son.

177 posted on 04/04/2006 10:21:39 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Petronski

My favorite part of this entire thread is the "GE Greatest Hits" list.


178 posted on 04/04/2006 10:29:51 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Dominic Harr
Hey Harr - it's been awhile. I thought you had left FR, but I'm glad you're here (maybe I just haven't been on these threads much lately).

I remember those B2K threads about Java vs. ASP and all that good stuff.

179 posted on 04/04/2006 10:34:45 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Golden Eagle

"Plenty, you said you never posted on the dell threads and I never linked them, both lies blown to hell in post 160."

Again, I think we have enough differences that you don't have to make up stuff to argue about.

Okay...(sigh)...where did I say I never posted on the Dell threads (he said, knowing full well he will never get a link to a specific post).


180 posted on 04/05/2006 4:52:56 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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