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Open Source Weblog: January 2008 Archives
Open source up 26% in the enterprise
January 31, 2008
More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26% year-on-year. Enterprises on average used a whopping 94 different open source packages last year, compared to 75 in 2006…
Linux is hotter than Britney Spears and Paris Hilton: official
January 10, 2008
Hit me baby one more time! Yes that’s right; Linux is officially scorching hot – hotter than both Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Never mind One Night in Paris, how about One Night of Open Source?
What on earth am I banging on about? I’m glad you asked. I used Google’s Zeitgeist search trends analysis tool to compare the frequency and volume of searches for ‘Linux’ with those of ‘Britney’ and ‘Paris Hilton’, between June 2004 and June 2007 (the latest date for which data is available).
As the graphs below show, more people searched for Linux more often than those searching for Britney or Paris. With one or two underwear-dodging exceptions…
Will 2008 be the year of Linux on the desktop?
January 07, 2008
It looks unlikely. The meteoric rise of Linux as a server operating system - analysts say as it has around 30% market share in that space - is not being matched by its use as a desktop operating system, and there's no reason to believe that will change much this year.
Whatever the Linux faithful might like to believe, the evidence suggests that as a percentage of total desktop operating systems worldwide, Linux has barely left the starting blocks...
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