Tom Yager Predicts: Linux Will Get Buried by Mac OS X
Published August 31st, 2006
Tom Yager, Infoworld: Linux will get buried
After a sensational headline like that, I expected more from the actual article, but in this segment, at least, Yager is more worried about backpedalling to avoid incensing the Linux crowd than explaining how Apple's UNIX platform will "bury" Linux. He doesn't mean Linux is going away... instead, he predicts it will go "underground." Basically, he predicts that Linux is dead as a client platform but will live on in embedded solutions and on servers. He doesn't really talk much about how or why Mac OS X will make headway against Windows, though. Perhaps in a future article in the series...
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