As noted by Heinlein, quoted by the the author of the Last Dino rant, "experts" typically under-project an exponential ramp.

Here is "The Gartner Group" duly revising upward their projections for Linux. So the official conservative corporate projection is now that Linux will eat half of Window's enterprise lunch by 2005.

Basically, Linux is now doing for OSes what gcc did for compilers. :)

http://enterprise.cnet.com/enterprise/0-9566-714-1631259.html?tag=st.ne.ni.stckblck.lnx

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Shots from Super Computing 2000 (shouldn't that have been a 60's flick? :) including a 'df' showing five terabytes of free storage :)

http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/sc2k/sc2kpg0.html