__/ [ Ray Ingles ] on Thursday 17 August 2006 13:20 \__
> On 2006-08-17, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Happy Birthday Open Source" and more in the August 21 issue of Red
>> Herring, which reaches newsstands on Monday.
>>| Linux enthusiasts await
>>| the arrival of Linux on the desktop the same way fundamentalists await
>>| he Rapture, but their wait may be a long one.
>
> Reminds me of the kind of things people said about Linux in the server
> area back in the late 90's. :->
A lot of rigour seems to be headed towards servers and mobile devices. While
laptop sales outperform the sales of desktops, mobile devices become
/extremely/ ubiquitous, even in developing countries. Backend servers often
bear a lot of the load. Luckily, this shift puts Linux in a position of
advantage. Microsoft was too late in realising emerging trends. IBM, on the
other hand, has always shrewdly looked ahead. As for the OLPC, I guess it's
somewhere between the mobile and the latpop. And it'll be a h00t.
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