Business is not Evil (was: HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu)

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 11/17/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> No, it isn't.  Ask the Gartner group how they count market share.  I
> haven't
> said that Linux doesn't have an appreciable number of users - I'm saying
> that surveys listing "market share" NEVER include non-commercial software.

NEVER?  :)

* http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=330693

"End-user research done in 2000 presents a good picture of the real
market share of Linux as a server operating system and serves to
project the probable market share for Linux this year, as well as a
Linux server forecast through 2005."

* http://news.com.com/Apache+zooms+away+from+Microsofts+Web+server/2100-7344_3-5139511.html

"Apache grew far more rapidly in 2003 than its nearest rival,
Microsoft's Internet Information Services, according to a new
survey--meaning that the open-source software remains by far the most
widely used Web server on the Internet.
...
 Apache's market share grew from about 62 percent to about 67 percent,
while that of IIS dropped from 27 percent to 21 percent."

* http://ooosmp.homelinux.org/CommunityReview/MarketingGoals

"Gartner Group predicted in May 2002 that the OpenOffice.org codebase
could eventually reach 10% market share"

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Gartner-caution-on-Firefox-takeup/2005/02/09/1107890254074.html?oneclick=true

"Gartner said features such as tabbed browsing, integrated search,
better support for standards, easy installation and removal procedures
and the fact that Firefox had no deep hooks into the operating
system's innards were all rated as pluses by users.
...
They predicted that as Firefox's share of the browser market grew, it
would increasingly be targeted by malicious code."



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Russ