Linux Market to Reach $35 billion by 2008

Not only Firefox, but Linux is also eating Micrsoft's lunch.   Would I invest in MSFT?  Absolutely not!   Microsoft is losing marketshares left and right.  I don't even use hotmail nor IE anymore!

IDC on Wednesday painted an optimistic outlook for Linux (news - web sites)
over the next few years, predicting that overall revenue for desktops,
servers, and Linux-compatible packaged software will reach $35 billion
by 2008.

The study reflects a measurement of
shipments and the installed base of servers and PCs running Linux,
which takes into consideration Linux shipped with new hardware
deliveries, Linux running aboard redeployed systems, and instances
where Linux is used as a guest operating system. With this new view,
the server market for shipments and redeployments with Linux increases
by 36 percent over net new shipments in 2004, according to IDC.