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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst
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>> | Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or
>> | dying are incorrect, at least globally,
>> | according to an analyst firm.
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>> | Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks
>> | on track to ship this year will come with
>> | some variant of the free, open-source
>> | operating system, ABI Research said. The
>> | exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows,
>> | said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which
>> | works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks
>> | this year.
>> |
>> | That number contradicts third-party market
>> | figures, trumpeted by Microsoft, that showed
>> | Linux shipping on as few as 4% of U.S.
>> | netbooks.
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>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst
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> What ever became of all these ARM Netbook\Smartbooks that were going to
> take the market by storm? It has been close to a year now and I have
> yet to see one appear on a retail shelf locally.
Which country? They start in the east.
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