The answer to this question depends on which article you read and which application you are assessing.  For example, just one year ago Preston Gralla wrote in  Computerworld that even thought Linux may be dead on the desktop that when you look beyond the desktop Linux is shining.

How true and when you look at where the growth is today, it is not the desktop market.  Take a look at Android which is based on the Linux Kernel.  That is a market that is skyrocketing.   Jobs growth alone for those with Android programming skills has jumped 424%.  Then you have tablets and embedded applications that are flooding the market.

The Computerworld article concludes by saying that, “in the long run, smartphones, tables, and countless gadgets, gizmos and appliances will run some variant of Linux.  Windows will remain largely a desktop and server operating system.  And so more people will end up running Linux than running Windows.”

However, if you look at TechNewsWorld’s November 2011 article you might think that Linux is on its way out because it did not take over the desktop world.  All I know is that all the developers I know love Linux and wouldn’t have any other platform if you paid them.  Embedded Apps are everywhere and one of the courses in highest demand on GogoTraining is Hands-On Embedded Linux followed by Linux Device Drivers: Programming at the Kernel Level.

As long as there are people with opinions we are sure to hear both sides for many years to come.

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