Numerous articles about it have been published, not only in the the trade press, but in publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. IBM has very publicly announced support for Linux across its entire hardware line, from commodity pc's up through its s390 mainframe computers. Linux has shown itself to be a very compact, fast, and reliable operating system for servers.
Uptimes are, in many cases, measured in months to years.
This figure doesn't include copies downloaded on the internet and doesn't account for the fact that a single Linux CD can legally be installed on any number of servers. Linux has also started to attract attention in the desktop market, although Microsoft's monopoly is still largely intact. These programs can read and write to Microsoft Office file formats. Some industry analysts are predicting that Linux could become the operating system of choice in the blossoming Internet Appliance market. Linux from scratch.