____/ Mark Kent on Monday 21 April 2008 16:54 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Matt on Friday 04 April 2008 11:22 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> They must be looking at their peer to find successful
>>>> migration. It's the domino effect.
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
>>>> We are not alone
>>>> Munich doesn ?t work isolated: intensive transfer of know-how with other
>>>> agencies, internationale partners and the Open Source Community generates
>>>> solutions.
>>
>> It's not just Germany, either. Same story in Holland where they probably
>> migrate even more 'aggressively'. Microsoft goes a long way at the moment
>> (even donating hardware) to slow down the momentum, but the outcome seems
>> inevitable.
>>
>> The following was said just a couple of days ago by a firm that is largely
>> funded by Microsoft:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Gartner estimates that the market share for desktop Linux is about 2% in
>>| the Asia-Pacific region, 4.5% in Eastern Europe, and 4% in the Middle East
>>| and Africa. By contrast, Linux holds 1.2% of the desktop market in the U.S.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001577
>>
>> The real figures are higher than this and I imagine they only check
>> businesses, not home. They use Microsoft-supplies figures in many cases.
^
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> Even so, those figures are not so small that they can be ignored. The
> key thing to couple with these figures are the sales figures. The
> Amazon numbers are fascinating... Just taking a look now, we see that
>
> no.1 Acer notebook, "Vista home premium" down from £399 to £329
> no.2 Vaio laptop, "Vista home premium" down from £926 to £699
> no.3 Vaio laptop, "Vista home premium" down from £529 to £469
> no.4 Acer notbook "Vista home basic" down from £299 to £289
> No.5 Acer notebook "Vista Home premium" down from £399 to £349
> No.6 HP pavillion "Vista Home premium" at £389
> ... and it continues with heavily discounted Vista models until you
> get to number 8 which is an Asus Eee at £191.
>
> An Asus Eee is also at slot number 18, and the Nokia N810 is at slot
> number 24.
>
> The 4Gig, 7" Eee has fallen down to number 59, although it's rather
> expensive at £269, well above the original price of £209. If Asus could
> make more, I think they'd sell a *lot* more of them.
>
> The interesting thing here, though, is that the Windows machines are
> being heavily discounted, whereas the Linux ones are actually being sold
> well above the originally listed price.
The UK will probably adapt FOSS even /after/ the US does (i.e. last). It's
that 'special relationship'.
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