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[News] Some Market Share Figures for Desktop GNU/Linux, Hovering Around 3% Even 8 Years Ago

  • Subject: [News] Some Market Share Figures for Desktop GNU/Linux, Hovering Around 3% Even 8 Years Ago
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:45:58 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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PC Client Share

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| The EU Competition Commission ruling on M$ 
| has some interesting facts on share.
| 
| On page 121 of 302 pages are these tidbits:
| 
|     * 2000 units shipped with GNU/Linux 1.7%
|     * 2001 units shipped with GNU/Linux 2.3%
|     * 2002 units shipped with GNU/Linux 2.8%
| 
| Those numbers are from surveys done by IDC. 
| They were the basis for IDC declaring 
| GNU/Linux overtook MacOS by about 2003 and 
| they are consistent with M$âs revelation of 
| 7% share in 2009. They do not count 
| installation by individuals and small 
| businesses which could be large.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/18/pc-client-share/

Market Share

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| What's interesting is the hold that 
| Microsoft has on the desktop market. 
| According to the w3counter: OSX is 7.83%, 
| Linux is 2.78%, iPhone, WAP, and Android 
| together make up about 1%, and everything 
| else is Windows. What's funny is that Apple 
| is now the 7th largest computer manufacturer 
| in the world. They're also the only one to 
| have beaten the industry average in growth 
| for Q1 of 2010. What does this mean?
| 
| This means that there is still a chance for 
| the rest of us. Apple has proven that 
| Microsoft's empire is not invulnerable. If 
| people can recognize the differences between 
| Mac and PC, they can recognize the 
| difference among Linux, Mac, and PC. With 
| that said, I think that people are also 
| learning the reality. Windows just sucks. I 
| am not saying this from a fanboy stand 
| point. I dislike Macintosh too. I don't even 
| really care for Linux. I simply think that 
| Linux and OSX are better products than 
| Windows (security, stability, ease of use, 
| performance, scalability, total cost of 
| ownership). The key to this is simply Total 
| Cost of Ownership.
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/06/market-share.html


Recent:

More FUD about GNU/Linux Popularity

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| These are just more trash statistics
| telling the world or at least anyone who
| wants to listen that GNU/Linux is not
| relevant. Real statistics with pedigree
| showed that GNU/Linux surpassed MacOS share
| back in 2003 and has not looked back.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/29/more-fud-about-gnulinux-popularity/
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