By Dominic Maher, 17 February 2000 12:05
NEWS Microsoft will continue to dominate the client/server market with today's release of Windows 2000, according to IDC, but one leading analyst has doubts about the validity of this statement.
IDC said that the operating system (OS) will have a slow take-up at first, but after six months to a year, companies will start migrating en masse. The reason for the prolonged delay, it says, is the lack of confidence in the stability of the OS.
Clive Longbottom, analyst at Strategy Partners, said: "The front end may be dominated by Microsoft, but users have no need to know what it's running on at the back end."
In addition, when considering the predicted growth of Linux on the server and DataQuest's prediction of a 26 per cent market share by 2003, Longbottom said: "This is worrying. It looks like this could be the start of a Unix war following the recent move by Corel coupled with the existing flavours of Unix that are already out there."
See also:
'MS has to change to be loved' (http://www.silicon.com/a35714 )
'Windows 2000 Special: New dawn or dead end?' (http://www.silicon.com/a35753 )
'Cleansing the Gates of perception - behind the hype of Win2000' (http://www.silicon.com/a35756 )
'Corel and Inprise/Borland make Linux powerhouse' (http://www.silicon.com/a35592 )
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