The original article is INCREDIBLY MISLEADING! In fact, it makes
me wonder if Paul Kallender knew what he was writing about.
Here is the bottom of it. 21.0 % of Japanese business currently
use OSS for server, 7.6 % of Japanese business is planning to introduce
OSS for server, 14.6 % of Japanese business is considering to introduce
OSS for server. In the same white paper, they have the figures
for USA and South Korea. According to the white paper, the figure
in the US is 33.0 % currently use OSS server, 5.7 % is planning to use,
and 20.6 % is considering to use. In South Korea, 21.0 % is
currently using, 4.7 % is planning to use, and 12.9 % is
considering.
If you don't believe me, you can read it yourself at (it's on the
fourth page on this PDF):
http://www.johotsusintokei.soumu.go.jp/whitepaper/ eng/WP2005/eng_pressinfo3.pdf
In short, OSS use in Japan in server market is less than that of the
US! Is this supposed to be a news? I don't think so!
I thought something was wrong when I saw the headline, as I never saw
any OSS machines around when I used to work in Japan. In fact,
everywhere I saw, I only saw Windows machines (not even Mac back in
2002).