Re: [News] Linux in China is Booming with 9.8% Market Share

[John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> China's Linux industry booms, despite problems
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | According to Lu Shouqun, China's sale of Linux was 175 million yuan
> | ($21 million) in 2005, increasing 81% compared with the previous year.
> | The sale of other open source software that year was 160 million
> | yuan ($19 million). In the operating system market, the share of
> | Linux increased from 4.2% to 9.8% between 2003 and 2005.
> `----
>
> http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1917209&tid=53

I think the main driver right now is new PC sales are on the rise.   MS 
revenues rose this quarter...although a lot of that from the money 
losing divisions (XBox).   MS is doing well in servers and database. 
Windows client sales are down.  I think they will seriously question all 
their dalliances in other speculative markets.   The Novell relationship 
may eventually spill over into them supporting Suse desktops.