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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Frank Brand wrote:

> yet - and with funding for open source projects going down the toilet as
> LNUX, SGI, CALD, and RHAT slowly die off, things aren't going to change
> anytime soon.

First I've heard of it :)  Is RedHat doing significantly worse than the
market average?  As for Linux.  In what way does he claim it is slowly
dying off.

Sounds much they the doom sayers I'd see on the net in 92 forcasting the
imminent demise of the Internet.  Hmm...Let me check...no the Internet is
still fine...

My thoughts:

I believe the earlier exponential growth rate of Linux is slowing but then
it has to. If the growth rate of a few years ago had remained we would
have ended up with more Linux installs in the world now than people.  Many
more.  Linux is still growing but it is approaching a server saturation
point - ie most of the people who might deploy it in a server role have
already considered doing so or done so.  It'll still keep growing
quickly (as the market itself is still expanding) but not at the Earth
shattering rate of a couple of years ago. The rate will again pickup if a
new niche opens up - such as large scale desktop deployment.

Flame if you must :)
Rob

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