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- File Size: 352 KB
- Digital: 43 pages
- Published by: IDC June 1, 2004
Book Description
This IDC study analyzes the shipments in the Linux server market in Japan between 2000 and the third quarter (July through September) of 2003. In addition, the study provides analysis on the market's favorable factors as well as inhibitors and provides a market forecast up to 2007. The worsening of the domestic economic situation worked in favor of the Linux server market. The negative economic activities in Japan such as the collapse of the IT bubble and the prolonged slump caused the call for the reduction of the "maintenance cost of IT assets," which had been considered as a fixed expenditure, to surface. At the same time, cost requirements on new IT investment became very strict. In this situation, x86 servers (of which the cost performance and reliability are improving drastically) are linked with Linux-based open source
software and are well accepted by users.
IDC Japan's server research manager, Satoshi Fukutomi, says, "The open source
software business strongly calls for transparency in various costs of system establishment. Vendors are ultimately required to show how appropriately they can reimburse their profit from providing open source
software to users."
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