Scott Handy Linux Quotations

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

Last quarter there was $1.5 billion in Linux server sales as an industry, with Linux server revenue growing eight times that of the overall server market at 42 percent, versus five percent growth for the total sever market. That growth was also more than four times that of Microsoft's Windows Server, which gained 10 percent.

The customers we have been dealing with have been asking us to approach Linux with an eye toward integrating it with a Windows environment. Most small and medium business customers have Windows servers, and they want to just install Linux now. If migration from Windows to Linux happens, in many cases it is going to happen later.

A third of workloads now being deployed on Linux come from Unix, a third from Windows and a third are new installations.