Linux Market Share

[saahne]

Novell CMO: Growing the pie

Well, IDC just released their 2009-2013 forecast (and review) of the worldwide Linux market and there’s good news all around. Considering that Linux revenue started at $0 a decade ago, IDC’s projections showing Linux operating systems revenue exceeding $1 billion in 2012 and continuing to grow to $1.2 billion in 2013 is big news indeed. In 2008, the last full year of data, the Linux vendor community saw a 23.4% growth in revenue, well north of the single digit increase in operating system revenue at large. And while Red Hat continues to have the largest share, Novell had a particularly good 2008 growing total Linux operating system revenue by 50.3% from 2007 to 2008 while growing overall market share over five points to 29.8% in 2008.

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[john_hudson]

Supercomputers over 75%
Digital televisions - 90% ?
Satellite navigation systems - at least 50% ?

Bear in mind that, while the desktop appears to offer the greatest potential for growth, because the desktop market is now mature, it is likely to grow less than the mobile or the netbook markets and so the greatest potential for growth is no longer in the desktop market.