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“The feedback gleaned from this
market survey confirms our belief that, as organizations fight to cut
costs and find value in this tough economic climate, Linux adoption
will accelerate,” said Markus Rex, general manager and senior vice
president for Open Platform Solutions at Novell.
“Companies also told us that strengthening Linux
application support, interoperability, virtualization capabilities and
technical support will all fuel adoption even more.”
Additional key survey findings include:
·
67% of respondents stated that interoperability and manageability
between Linux and Windows is one of the most important factors when
choosing an operating system.
· The retail industry
showed the greatest potential for acceleration in Linux adoption with
63% of respondents planning an increase on the desktop and 69%
considering the same on the server. The government sector lagged.
·
Almost 50% of respondents plan to accelerate adoption of Linux on the
desktop, especially for basic office functions, technical workstation
users, and higher education/K-12.
· Nearly half of
respondents stated that moving to virtualization is accelerating their
adoption of Linux. Eighty-eight% of recipients plan to evaluate, deploy
or increase their use of virtualization software within Linux operating
systems over the next 12-24 months
· From a regional
perspective, Asia/Pacific is the most bullish on increasing Linux
adoption, as 73% of respondents said they would increase deployments on
the server and 70% on the desktop. In the Americas, 66% of respondents
said they are either evaluating or have already decided to increase
adoption of Linux on the desktop and 67% on the server.
·
The economic crisis has had the biggest effect on the Americas, and in
financial services and government. More than 62% of respondents said
that their budget has been cut or that they are only investing where
needed.
“Economic downturns have the tendency to accelerate
emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions and
punish solutions that are not cost competitive,” said Al Gillen,
program vice president, system software, IDC.
“This survey confirms that Linux users view it favorably, and this view
places Linux in a competitive position to emerge from this downturn as
a stronger solution.”
Among the survey participants, 55% had Linux server operating systems
in use, 39% had Unix server operating systems in use, and 97% had
Windows server operating systems in use. Typical respondents had titles
such as CIO, VP IT, IT Director, IT Manager, IT Staff, and IT
Consultant. Respondents were pre-screened via demographics screeners
and completed the survey online. Novell was not involved in recruiting,
and respondents did not need to be Novell customers.
An IDC white paper1 summarizing the survey findings can be found here.
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