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Title: Open Source Forum: Analysts divided over impact of Linux on NT

Summary: by Cath Everett in Austin, Texas

Analysts were divided this week at the Open Source Forum in
Austin, Texas, as to whether Linux posed a real threat to
Microsoft?s Windows NT and whether users were replacing the
one operating system (OS) with the other. Jim Johnson,
president of the Standish Group, was adamant that: ?The
replacement and non proliferation of NT is the most
prevelant influence of Linux and Microsoft has been hit the
hardest by it. While nothing will slow the Microsoft
juggernaut but Microsoft, people will find that Windows 2000
is worse than NT 4.0 and will flood to other OSs.?
Stacey Quandt, an analyst with Giga Information Group,
agreed. ?Most people are evaluating Linux as a replacement
to NT rather than Unix. Some 60 per cent of our clients are
disatisfied with Microsoft, which is a company in
transition. We?ll see a different landscape by 2002.?
But William Peterson, research manager at IDC, retorted:
?Linux is not necessarily replacing anything. It?s becoming
another OS to support and the enterprise is evaluating it
for file and print, but there?s no NT flying out of the
door. Microsoft has nothing to fear from Linux and it?s
almost impossible for Linux to hit NT, but it will
cannibalise Unix and maybe have a unifying effect.? Nick
Gall, vice president and director of open computing at the
Meta Group, attested, however, that IT managers were afraid
of Linux because they believed it could be modified and
customised without restraint, and were frightened of adding
another Unix to their organisation that might splinter
internally. But the Standish Group?s Johnson, warned:
?Microsoft says that NT is enterprise ready and scaleable
and frankly, it?s not. It would do better to position it as
departmental, Web or personal server. But the danger is that
Linux will fall into the same trap. It?s OK in the
enterprise, but not as an enterprise server, and it would be
better for it to grow up slowly than heat up too quickly and
burn out.? to comment on this story, email
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