computeruser.com: Linux going mainstream? Posted October 08, 2001 by Linux-2000 Staff
By Jon William Toigo, Washington Technology.

Once relegated to a limited set of applications, the Linux operating system is moving into the mainstream.

That's the word, anyway, from market research firm International Data Corp. and Linux vendors, such as Red Hat Inc. They said public and private organizations, rather than confining their Linux use to applications such as inexpensive Web serving and experimental, high performance computer clustering, are now turning to the open-source software for broader uses, such as database hosting.

Evidence of this shift is contained in an August IDC survey revealing that corporate and governmental information technology decision-makers are anticipating a 9 percent growth in Linux-related spending in 2002, up from 3 percent in 1999.

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