How Big A Failure Is “8″? Ask Gartner. at Robert Pogson

How Big A Failure Is “8″? Ask Gartner.

Published by Robert Pogson February 26th, 2013 in technology. 9 Comments

“Through 2015, 90% of enterprises will bypass widescale deployment of Windows 8″ for PCs.
see Gartner at Gartner Symposium IT Expo 2012 – Top Technology Predictions for 2013

So, it’s not just a slow uptake. Gartner sees business won’t use “8″ on anything but tablets. But business has alternatives that are viable for tablets, so M$’s market share on the business side is about to plummet. While businesses are not deploying “8″ many will deploy “7″ on PCs as long as they can. There’s no synergy between “7″ and “8″ and the cloud is not happening for M$. There is a huge opportunity for */Linux and FLOSS and servers. If business does not need M$ they are free to choose what works best and not just take another step on the Wintel treadmill.

- Robert Pogson

9 Responses to “How Big A Failure Is “8″? Ask Gartner.”

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1 eug Feb 27th, 2013 at 9:56 am

“There is a huge opportunity for */Linux”

If, and it is a big IF, red hat, suse or canonical do an agressive marketing campaign.

Without marketing expect no more than what we already have.
2 Robert Thompson Feb 27th, 2013 at 11:54 am

Hi Mr. Pogson.

Please remove this video from your home page, since it self starts.

Thanks.
3 Robert Pogson Feb 27th, 2013 at 12:45 pm

Good point! I changed it to a link…
4 oiaohm Feb 27th, 2013 at 3:16 pm

eug Ubuntu is lining up on Phones and Tablets. So they are already in for an aggressive marking.

Redhat is fairly much still growing market share in the server word at around 20 percent growth per year. So desktop is not much of a worry to them yet. Its more how will we keep up with growing customer base.

Suse I have not seen any aggressive plans from them either. But they are also growing at around 20 percent per year. Yes Suse is one of the items that kept Novell floating even that most of its closed source lines bombed out.

eug yep what a pity we are not going to have a 3 way fight. Problem is Suse and Redhat are having trouble coping with the word of mouth supply of customers. This is a really good location to be in.

There is one other party that will be pushing hard. Google with chromebooks and Android.
5 Robert Pogson Feb 27th, 2013 at 3:40 pm

oiaohm wrote, “Redhat is fairly much still growing market share in the server word at around 20 percent growth per year. So desktop is not much of a worry to them yet.”

Certainly, most of RedHat’s business is about servers but they do a lot of work with thin clients, which is about the desktop and uses a lot of servers. They also do sell desktop OS. Customers want it. RedHat just spent $100million on ManageIQ which does virtual desktops and clouds.
6 Kevin Lynch Feb 27th, 2013 at 4:45 pm

Interesting. Especially since iOS is rapidly becoming the standard for “Bring-Your-Own-Device” policies.
7 oiaohm Feb 27th, 2013 at 5:40 pm

Kevin Lynch more policies are saying Android as well today. Just particular models.

http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/240149443/samsung-knox-brings-byod-security-to-android-devices.htm
Its going to be good to see knox/selinux android out there in a out of box install.

Virtual desktops and clouds is still sell more servers Robert Pogson.

Ok what redhat is doing will eat in as side effect. We are not really going to see an advertising bitz from them.
8 ram Feb 27th, 2013 at 5:52 pm

A recent presentation at an Intel Channel Conference showed how cloud computing, tablets, and even just more mobile telephones increases the demand for Linux servers. The argument was compelling.

Basically it boils down to all that telephone switching and web traffic has to connect to and be routed by something. That something is Unix-like servers, mostly running one flavor of Linux or another.
9 eug Mar 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am

Run Windows 8 Modern apps in a window on the desktop
Display and pin Modern apps on the taskbar
Explicitly close Modern apps by clicking its close button
Object Desktop Subscription (includes ModernMix™)

http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/download.asp

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