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By Jay Lyman
October 10, 2006

Where Linux stands to gain the most is in clustered, high performance computing and grid environments where Unix has been present and Microsoft has not, says Gartner Research Vice President George Weiss. With its mix of capability and flexibility, often at a lower cost, Linux continues its aggressive growth in the enterprise Quintum VoIP solutions.

The perfect fit for your Enterprise. server market, according to new research. A survey of nearly 400 IT developers and professionals indicates that use of Linux in at least some servers is still on the rise, reports Evans Data. While Linux servers represent about US$8.3 billion of a $53.6 billion server shipment market today, the open source Latest News about open source operating system will rise to an estimated $12.4 billion share of a $57.5 billion market by 2011, Gartner Latest News about Gartner Research Vice President George Weiss told LinuxInsider.

Windows, which will hover around $20 billion during that time, also continues to grow, but not as rapidly as Linux. Linux by Leaps, there are several factors leading enterprises to replace Unix servers with Linux -- primarily performance, scalability, open standards-based flexibility and cost, Evans Data President John Andrews told LinuxInsider.

"We see use across the network edge servers, infrastructure Get the Facts on BlackBerry Business Solutions servers and business application servers Latest News about application server and finally data/content servers," Andrews said, indicating that Linux is maturing and now handling more mission-critical workloads for businesses.

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