Linux adoption boosted by downturn    Monday, March 16 2009 @ 03:38 PM EST Contributed by: sde The economic downturn is fuelling growth of the Linux market, according to a poll conducted by IDC last month. The research - which was sponsored by SUSE Linux owner Novell - found that more than half of the 300 IT executives surveyed planned to accelerate Linux adoption. More than two-thirds (68 per cent) said they are either evaluating or have already decided to increase Linux adoption for the desktop. The equivalent figure for servers was even higher, at 72 per cent. In addition, 40 per cent indicated they plan to deploy additional workloads on Linux over the next 12-24 months and 49 per cent said Linux will be their primary server platform within five years. Read more   [ Views: 904 ]

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