Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wintrolls can point to actual surveys like Statmarket and state that
> Linux is less than 1% of the market.
>
> I can count every single actual deployment of Linux ever done, compared
> to the number of Windows machine actually deployed in the market today,
> and come up with 55 million it 1999, or 200+ million in 2006, giving
> Linux 20% of the market today.
And of course counting Linux installs is problematic because of that
whole 'free' thing. I've worked for a couple of big corporate clients
that had sizable installs of Linux workstations. They were all
installed from a single CD set, often on white box systems
assembled in house or on retasked Windows machines. These installs
fly completely under the radar as far as official counts go. Even
for my own business and home machines, I have a couple of systems
purchased from Penguin Computing but others I built up from parts or
converted from Windows. My colo server is on the backbone and
counted by netcraft, but the rest are behind a firewall and may as
well not exist as far as any market surveys are concerned.
There is a stealth migration taking place. It is happening mainly
behind firewalls, so it is even more hidden than the server migration
that took everyone by surprise. It is still small, but growing, and
there is little MS can do to stop it.
Cheers,
Thad
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