Shares of VA Linux , a producer of PCs designed with open source software in mind, finished their first day of trading at just under eight times their issue price Dec. 9. The era of proprietary standards is gone. It isn't going to work anymore. So it may be in the Far East. Chinese officials and Microsoft executives subsequently said the report was wrong.
Servers distribute data to users' desktop PCs over the Internet and local networks.
International Data Corp.'s Dan Kusnetzky says a study his company is completing for clients shows similar projections. Those data, in turn, have forced IDC to up its projections for the future. That implies the adoption is happening faster than we had anticipated. But it's still largely in servers. Market studies conducted in the mid 1990s showed that many home-computer users switched to Windows after they started using Windows at work.