Jupitermedia's Trends in 2004

interesting predictions for the new year

[amznVibe]

BitTorrent - The Next Wave of P2P
Serial ATA - A Rising Star in Storage
Telcos Embrace VoIP
DRM-Protected Online Music
Micropayments - Is This The Year?
Blogging on Steroids
RSS Hits the Enterprise
Wi-Fi Gets (More) Mobile
Is There Room for 'Gi-Fi'?
Search Goes Offline
Time For Good Viruses?
Privacy's Privations Extended in 2004?
The Firewall War
IM: Get Thee Behind a Firewall
A Big Release Year for Microsoft
Linux Continues to Gain
The Year To Sort Our CAN-SPAM

[internetnews.com...]

[martinibuster]

>>Linux Continues to Gain

Linux reportedly has 1% of the desktop OS market. Not bad for a nascent technology. Technological first movers, China, South America, and other developing nations are leading the way.

[amznVibe]

Linux also runs perhaps 60-70% of the server market, no?

[andy_boyd]

Linux will definitely do well in the coming years. I think that once it reaches a critical mass of users things will really start to move. The big developers will start to introduce their consumer / prosumer apps - think Quicktime, PS, DW etc to accomodate demand.

But I think that this is some years away. Between now and then the growing popularity of Linux will be driven by businesses who realise that Linux is way cheaper than a M$ solution.

[amznVibe]

Ah here's the apache/linux vs windows server graph [news.netcraft.com] I was trying to find yesterday.

[sem4u]

No mention of any MSN search engine technology...