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Study: Linux sales down, but not out
News Meanwhile, Windows sales climbed 11 percent to more than $10bn last year, according to IDC analyst Al Gillen. The Linux operating system market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total operating system revenue...
[August 7, 2002, 8:08]
Microsoft to change licensing rules
News Under the existing licensing scheme, a company running Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 database on a 16-processor system, for example, "would probably have to pay for all 16 processors, even if you only use four of them", said IDC analyst Al Gillen.
[March 14, 2003, 7:57]
Microsoft winds down Windows NT sales
News This is all part of the process Microsoft uses to eliminate a product in their portfolio," said IDC analyst Al Gillen. Gillen added that Microsoft's decision to discontinue NT 4.0 should not be viewed as the company's attempt to increase revenue by...
[October 3, 2001, 9:14]
Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
News For them to do 20 percent in the first 12 months of availability is almost impossible," said Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC. IDC's projections suggest that 11 percent of business PCs that run Windows will be running Vista at the end of next year...
[October 2, 2006, 8:50]
Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs
News I don't think this is going to be a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park home run," said IDC analyst Al Gillen, who still doesn't see a major Linux draw for most Windows PC users. Of the 160.5 million operating-system licences shipped in 2006, Windows...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
Microsoft extends NT support
News That's probably an indication Microsoft is getting enough push-back from customers that they don't want to rock the boat more than they have," said Al Gillen, an IDC analyst. Still, the support extension is surprising, because Microsoft "is...
[January 28, 2003, 8:47]
Total cost of Linux ownership - not free but impressive
News Those variables and others -- such as what distribution of Linux is in play and the version of Windows or Unix it's being compared with -- make it impossible to plug numbers into a preset formula and spit out an easy answer, explained Al Gillen...
[December 3, 2002, 10:13]
Connectix aids Microsoft's migration plan
News The ability to consolidate Windows NT 4 servers is "a pretty powerful concept", said Al Gillen, an analyst with IDC. That possibility, while potentially appealing to customers, goes against Microsoft's policy of distancing itself from Linux and...
[February 21, 2003, 9:31]
Wal-Mart sells more Linux wares online
News However, IDC analyst Al Gillen said such deals would not necessarily stimulate rapid adoption of the software by end users. Linux isn't growing by leaps and bounds based on these deals," Gillen said. Gillen said he expects Linux' market share...
[August 21, 2003, 14:05]
Microsoft: Vista SP1 due next year
News IDC analyst Al Gillen predicted that it won't have that big of an effect. It doesn't fundamentally change the landscape for Windows Vista adoption," Gillen said. Gillen said that businesses seem to be moving at generally the same pace as with...
[August 29, 2007, 18:15]
Microsoft again pushes back .Net Server launch
News IDC analyst Al Gillen says Trustworthy Computing may delay far more than just the release of .Net Server. Windows 2000 really hasn't propagated through the industry the way Microsoft would have liked for it to," Gillen said.
[March 4, 2002, 9:16]
What to expect during an XP migration
News While this feature may be improved over time, "this is a challenge for Microsoft," says analyst Al Gillen of IDC, an IT industry research firm. On the client side, the majority of enterprises moving to Windows XP are typically upgrading from...
[April 5, 2002, 13:39]
Vista sales gaining momentum
News But, while corporations may be planning their Vista move, most large companies that are buying PCs are still immediately reinstalling Windows XP, said IDC analyst Al Gillen. That's completely normal behaviour," Gillen said, though it has quashed...
[October 29, 2007, 14:59]
Microsoft polishing .Net Server software
News IDC analyst Al Gillen agreed that customers won't see the software this year, but said ultimately the late delivery might not be a concern, as earlier delays compelled many customers to adopt Windows 2000 Server instead.
[October 8, 2002, 13:05]
Windows XP: Hot or not?
News IDC analyst Al Gillen said comparisons to Windows 95 and 98 can be deceptive. They've already done 10 million licenses, so they're well on their way to beating the first-year totals for 95," Gillen said.
[December 20, 2001, 9:11]
Apple cuts Mac OS X Server licence fees
News I don't think that Apple is doing anything like Microsoft did, where Microsoft essentially changed the ground rules for obtaining upgrades for a lot of their customers," IDC analyst Al Gillen said. Apple has moved into a market segment that is not...
[October 14, 2002, 14:18]
The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?
News Although 15 percent is not a huge component of Microsoft's customer base, it is never good to have unhappy customers," said Al Gillen, system software research manager for IDC. IDC analyst Gillen says the international market is particularly...
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
Microsoft discloses more Windows code
News But IDC analyst Al Gillen said it may be too early to tell what good the disclosure will do, if any. The value this is going to have on the industry is going to be difficult to determine over the short term," Gillen said.
[August 28, 2002, 8:07]
Linux lovers hit hard times as home users
News Desktop Linux only makes up between.For more, click here.and 3 percent of the market, depending on which way you look at the data," IDC analyst Al Gillen said. Linux is not an impulse buy that consumers just stumble across and purchase, Gillen noted.
[November 3, 2005, 17:20]
Longhorn: End-to-end search remains a dream
News Based on the feedback from customers, Microsoft will either scale back hoped-for features or prioritise others, said Al Gillen, an analyst with research firm IDC. I would expect.more clarification on what we're going to get," said Gillen.
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
