Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over

ZDOne writes "In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to analyst Gartner — which has up to now been fairly cautious, or downright negative, in its previous predictions about community developed software. '"By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,' predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a 'stealth' impact for the technology in embedded form: "Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition.'"

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

...Does this mean 2012 will be the year of Linux on the desktop?

Quietly?

[PPH]

Is that the sound of chairs splintering I hear?

Re:Certain Software Companies Would Disagree

[Opportunist]

Geez... are you the only one who has not heard Microsoft practically screaming in pain this last year?

I got that sound on my MP3-player, it makes wonderful soothing background noise when I'm stressed out.

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[Anonymous Coward]

We use a code phrase to get around this in our office. Instead of describing something to the boss as open source, we tell him it's "a Sun product". Seems to work so far =)

Take over

[electricbern]

All your source are belong to us.

Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless.

[m2943]

I don't think its that simple. As an experiment I wiped a spare machine of Windows 2000 (which my 10 year old daughter was so fond of) and installed a copy of Ubuntu 7.10 on it. After 1 month of struggling with learning the machine, she won't even touch that computer. I'm not downing the OS though, but my point is, I am willing to pay for software (and probably so is many others) that is easy to use.

So, you're saying you're taking an eight year old computer and you erase the operating system that your daughter likes and replace it with one that you yourself hate, that she has never used and didn't ask for, and that probably doesn't run any of the software she likes or is used to. And then you force your 10 year old daughter to use it. And because she complains about that, you conclude that Linux is less usable than Windows.

Your "experiment" tells us nothing about the relative usability of Windows and Linux. All it tells us is that you really aren't very smart.