Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14, 2003
From: Larry Collier (larry@medease.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 15:34:26 AKST
I agree, I have a 98SE that I use for games at home. This is a big
component and w/o it, it's the stumbling block.
However, it's a chicken/egg thing. Game companies will tend to write games
for the largest market. A change of market occured when IBM PCs became more
numerous than Apples. Then just about every game was written for Apple
boxes, then ported to IBM, maybe. A year later (or so) it had switched.
Now most games never make it to the Apple market.
The first step is to get Linux on business desk tops. Mom & pop will then
have to have linux box at home. Then there'll be a big enough market that
the game companies will switch to Linux then port. When they do, I'll bet
they never go back to windows because of the stability.
Larry
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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Newnham
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:05 PM
To: Larry Collier; Bryan Hickok; Stanley Long; AKLUG
Subject: Re: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14,
2003
Well i think Linux is missing a big component for our younger audience.
GAMES, Microsoft still as a beter platform for RPG games and MOMRPG games.
untill Linux finds a way to support these, wWindos will aways have a place
in my house(unfortunatley)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Collier" <larry@medease.com>
To: "Bryan Hickok" <bhickok@alaskapacific.edu>; "Stanley Long"
<slong@customcpu.com>; "AKLUG" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:44 PM
Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14, 2003
>
> I think it already is. If it were not why is MS fighting it with such
zeal.
> I have two workstations by my desk. One is running WIN2K the other RH8.0.
> There is nothing I can do on the 2K box I can't do on the RH box. Inertia
> (of my customers) is the only thing keeping the 2K box here. I'd much
> prefer 2 RH boxes. They don't need to be rebooted anywhere near as often.
>
> Anyone who can unpack a preinstalled windows could just as well unpack a
> preinstalled RH8.0 and start using either of them.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> Bryan Hickok
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:42 PM
> To: Stanley Long; AKLUG
> Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14,
> 2003
>
>
>
> When will Linux become a powerful competitor in the desktop OS market?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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