"IDC analyst Al Gillen, who is giving the opening keynote at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit kicking off today in Austin, Texas, is expected to cite figures from an IDC white paper entitled 'The Role of Linux Servers in Commercial Workloads' that show that Linux has done well and proved itself in the enterprise, and is expected to continue that trend through 2011.
"The white paper notes that Linux is growing beyond its initial usage roots in the enterprise, where it provided basic infrastructure components such as Web, print, and DNS servers, networking, and security services..."