Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14, 2003
From: Bryan Hickok (bhickok@alaskapacific.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 16:41:40 AKST
When will Linux become a powerful competitor in the desktop OS market?
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From: Stanley Long [mailto:slong@customcpu.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:39 PM
To: AKLUG
Subject: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14, 2003
There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how quickly =
Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share.
- March 14, 2003
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0314.petreley.html=20
<http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0314.petreley.html>
Evans Data Corporation hired me to help out with a research report=20
focused on Linux developers.
Of the developers surveyed, more than 50 percent who now develop=20
primarily for Linux used to develop primarily for Windows.
... This year, Windows commands attention of 50 percent of the=20
developers. Roughly 40 percent focus primarily on Linux. These=20
priorities will switch places almost number-for-number next year. ...
Assuming you could get a reliable snapshot of Windows and Linux machines =
installed, there is yet another complicating factor that renders this=20
less-meaningful. Linux runs on far more hardware platforms, including=20
those that outperform Intel-based systems. Even on Intel, Linux=20
outperforms Windows.
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