Spending on Linux to top 25bn GBP
News Article - Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:41
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Spending on Linux related software and services could reach $49 billion (£25 billion) in the next three years.
A new report from IDC, which was sponsored by the Linux Foundation, found that spending on the open source operating system reached $21 billion last year and further growth has been predicted.
The rise is being put down to the system becoming more business orientated, with databases and line-of-business applications being introduced.
IDC's report said: "Deployments of the Linux server operating system are expanding from infrastructure-oriented workloads to more commercially oriented workloads such as database, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other general business processing."
The analyst firm also said growth will be due to more companies installing Linux's operating system.
Linux's share of the market remains small, at four per cent, but this is predicted to rise to nine per cent.
The operating system was originally created by Linus Torvalds and the source code is available to everyone.
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