Gartner has a long history of putting out garbage. Some called them anti-Linux, but I was always in the camp that they were just writing crap for large quantiti

Gartner has a long history of putting out garbage. Some called them anti-Linux, but I was always in the camp that they were just writing crap for large quantities of money and the people paying wouldn't know the difference. This story from 1999 is surprisingly still up: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/22/gartner.linux.idg/index.html http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/22/gartner.linux.idg/... > The second report ("1999 OS forecast: The Linux face-off") projects market share in server dollars for the next few years. This one even contains a pretty graphic. The Gartner Group finding is that Linux will fade from the scene following the release of the first service pack for Windows 2000. > The third report ("Red Hat's future: Boxed in") concludes that Red Hat will fail to overthrow Microsoft by 2004, and suggests that Red Hat needs to find a more viable business model.