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Oh Linux, how shall I count thy installs?
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| I have also heard it said that 76.3% of
| people believe that you put a percentage
| sign behind any random number they will
| believe it to be true.
|
| Research and marketing companies especially
| love statistics. That is how they make
| their money by providing the numbers to
| make their paying customers feel good. Yet
| there is the old adage GIGO, which means
| Garbage In, Garbage Out. It seems to me
| that just about all of the numbers
| regarding operating system installs fall
| into that GIGO category.
|
| Of course bloggers, journalists and article
| writers take those numbers and spin them
| into fanciful stories for their readers to
| eat up like so many cream puffs. These
| fevered outpourings of fanatical minds are
| often used to show how their operating
| system has the most market share and
| consequently is the bees knees and of
| course everyone should be using it.
|
| Where do these statistics come from? Most
| of the time it comes from sales data
| provided by the companies supplying the
| operating systems and this is where the
| problem lies. This is because while
| companies of proprietary operating systems
| actually rent their products, open source
| operating systems are not. So any
| statistics regarding operating system
| market share are automatically bogus and
| can only be used for FUD campaigns.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/oh-linux-how-shall-i-count-thy-installs-37290/
sites that are not included in those Microsoft-sponsored aggregators:
February Market Share Report
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| Operating System on WWWUSE on W3Counter
| Windows XP 28.00% 53.60%
| Linux 20.00% 1.55%
| Windows 7 18.00% 10.66%
| Windows Vista 16.00% 20.07%
| Mac OS X 13.00% 8.12%
| Unknown 3.00% under 1%
| Windows 2003 1.00% 1.01%
| iPhone OSX 0.60% 0.75%
| Android 0.20% 0.10%
| Windows 2000 0.10% 0.43%
| All Microsoft 63.10% 85.77%
| All no Microsoft 36.80% 14.23%
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2010/03/04/february-market-share-report/
Recent:
Where do you find the worldâs fastest supercomputers?
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| Most popular supercomputer OS
|
| Here below you can see the division by
| operating system family across the top 500
| supercomputers.
|
| 1. Linux (89.2%)
| 2. Unix (5.0%)
| 3. Mixed (4.6%)
| 4. Windows (1.0%)
| 5. BSD based (0.2%)
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/26/where-do-you-find-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers/
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