LMAO!
Its in the article above! The source is Oracle! YOu just proved you came here and started picking a fight without even reading the article...
"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."
BTW You still have not answered the question:
Jeff's original question:
"To be fair, isn't measuring rate of growth sort of misleading when it comes comparing large bases to smaller bases? "
So is Linux getting a 12% growth significant compared to MS 3.6%?
You mean the propoganda posted by one of Microsoft's biggest competitors on a foreign website? LOL, you call that credible? Actually, you probably do, since that seems to be close to the extent of your sources.
Why are you always pushing this foreign crap on us? Foreign software, foreign website BS, give it a rest already. Despite your insistence, this isn't like back in the 80's when everyone moved from Apple etc to IBM, or back in the 90's when everybody dumped Netware and moved to NT in nothing flat. If it was, I would probably be moving myself, just like I did those times.
Get real, even according to the best case scenario in your foreign rag, here in 5 years you'll still be looking up at a 2 to 1 Windows advantage on servers, and nowhere close on the desktop. And there are reasons why that is, and all the BS in the world isn't going to cover them up.