Linux fails in small business market
Linux is losing momentum among medium sized enterprises, according to a survey by Canadian research firm Info-Tech Research Group.
After years of increased interest in the open source operating system, IT managers from medium sized businesses have come to a conclusion that open source is not for them.
The findings point to a rift between large enterprises that are increasingly embracing open source and smaller businesses that opt for a Microsoft-centric world.
"There is a downward trend in the interest for Linux," Frank Koelsch, executive vice president of Info-Tech Research Group told vnunet.com.
"Linux was hot and everybody was looking at it. Now people are taking amore sombre look."
Koelsch based his findings on an independent survey among 1422 IT decision makers in mid sized companies in Canada, the US and UK. .
Of the respondents only 27 per cent runs Linux inside their organisation. Of the group that doesn't have Linux today, 48 percent said they weren't interested in the open source operating system, and only 10 percent said they planned to look at it over the next three years.
