OT - IDC Explains Linux Went Right

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Leone wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>
> wrote:
>>
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/11/idc-explains-linux-went-right
>>
>>  "*IDC RESEARCHERS* reckon that the Linux market will be worth almost $50
>>  billion by 2011."
>>
>>  <snip>
>>
>>  "Now if only they could drop ridiculous code names like Gutsy Gibbon and
>>  Loquacious Lemur, they'd be home and dry. µ"
> 
> Heh. But it is true .. in a corporate environment, it's a lot more
> professional to say 'I'm running Ubuntu 7.10" rather than "I'm running
> Gutsy Gibbon" ...

Except that what is released to the "corporate environment" doesn't
_have_ "ridiculous code names".
-- 
derek