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eWeek: Linux will chip away at Windows desktops in 2009

Published December 16, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
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Doug Heintzman, Director of Strategist for Lotus Software, predicts that 2009 will mark the Linux year at desktops and laptops, following their popularity on netbooks, the ultralight, low-cost laptops. In a recent interview to eWeek.com, Doug reviewed the technologies and trends that will change the way we work in 2009:

We may well be at an inflection that, with distributions like the Ubuntu distribution, with the rise of popularity in the Mac OS platform, maybe the market starts to fragment and the monopoly loses its power. The Vista launch didn’t help matters much. Netbooks, where people are using a basic set of capabilities on the desktop but are storing photos and music files and editing their documents in much more in an online way….

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UCC (unified communications and collaboration) is getting stronger, supported by SAAS (software as a service), cloud computing, mashups, Web browser technologies, free software and, of course, Linux and open source.

Link:
eWeek – IBM Lotus Strategist sees Linux on Netbooks Making Inroads vs. Windows in 2009

40% Y/Y growth for Enterprise 2.0 market

Published July 11, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
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According to a Wainhouse Research study, recently released, the Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) market will reach $2B by 2013, with a projected 40% growth Y/Y.
The study, The Enterprise Social Networking Landscape, Volume 1: Market Dynamics, Sizing and Forecast, states that the ESN market is still in its infancy stages, reaching ‘only’ $200m.

Wainhouse Research conclusion (emphasis by me):

Social Networking in enterprise is inevitable. This conclusion is based on the benefits enterprise could achieve from using social networking technology and tracking historical adoption patterns of similar technologies.

This study is a complement report to IBM’s Strategy for Taking Social Networking to the Enterprise: An Inside Look at Lotus Connections report, released earlier this year.

In Israel, the market is still trying to understand what enterprise 2.0 is all about, and how they can harness those solutions to generate revenue. Probably the local ESN growth rate will not be 40% in 2009, but I’m positive Israel will discover enterprise 2.0 in the first half of 2009. We have excellent partners already working with a limited number of customers on adopting such solutions, building the business cases and best practices.
Wanna be an early adopter of enterprise 2.0? Now is the time to do so.

Links:
MarketWatch – Enterprise Social Networking Market Expected to Reach $2B by 2013
Wainhouse Research – Enterprise Social Networking reports
Adopt enterprise 2.0 – I want a facebook thing. I think.

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