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That's including the hardware, pumped up by IBM mainframes, which may only be running Linux on one partition. And still overblown, just like supposed adoption rates have been for the last 5+ years.

To see what's really going on, look at the Linux vendors performance on Wall Street. Tumbling down, to less than half their value of a year ago. Here's one good example:

Novell stock slumps after restatement of revenue

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh43710_2005-02-28_16-00-38_n28257657_newsml

NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Shares of Novell Inc.(NOVL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fell more than 5 percent on Monday to an 18-month low after the software maker reclassified its quarterly results to show lower revenue from new software licenses than previously stated.

"Subsequent to the issuance of our press release and the conference call announcing our results of operations for our first fiscal quarter 2005, it came to our attention that $6.1 million of Linux & platform services revenue reported as new software licenses should have been reported as maintenance and services," the company said in a regulatory filing.

As a result, Novell, a pioneer of networking software that has switched in the past year to become a distributor of Linux, posted net new software licenses revenue of $44.3 million, instead of the reported $50.4 million. There was no change to total revenue or net income in the first fiscal quarter 2005.

That's including the hardware, pumped up by IBM mainframes, which may only be running Linux on one partition.

Or running 40 LPARs with Linux. You'll never know.

To see what's really going on, look at the Linux vendors performance on Wall Street. Tumbling down,

If stock performance equalled sales, then Microsft's sales would be stagnant. Weren't the MS schills touting a Microsoft sales increase last year?

Gator, there are fan boys on all sides here and GE is most defiantly one of them. I could arguably be another but I dont have the hate and bile that some have which makes them omit things to make a point.

On novell, it has not been a great year, nor has it for Redhat, SUN, and even MS (down from 30 to 25 from November to now). Novell bought suse (and thus got into the Linux market) at less than 4 dollars a share, people overreacted and they went up way too high, its correcting (look at the 2 year picture).

Might Linux not make the numbers they say? could be, I dont have access to their research data and using stock prices to predict growth is about as accurate as throwing chicken bones.