I think this is good news for Linux users. I am a fairly new user to
Linux, ive been using it for the last 8 months or so.
At first when i told people that i no longer used windows people
laughed, but i find now that more people are interested to hear what
Linux is about. The figures are stated below, although negative from
Gartner Dataquest do not corralate to figures from other sources. How
many people here have got their distro's from magazines or downloaded
them from the internet? I bet these figures are not included in the
statistics.
With the recent advances in KDE and Gnome, Linux truly is becoming an
alternative (and superior) to windows, it has always had the advantage
on the server side, but i always found the desktop a little lacking,
this is now not so.
I would think that Microsoft should be getting a little worried by now
that their monopoly maybe about to be crippled, maybe its finally time
for the little linux people?
Jamie
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>From: Romanator[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 15 June 2001 11:33
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
>
>I was wondering what we can do as Linux users? Do we sit on the
>sidelines and do nothing?
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> A story from www.theregister.co.uk:
>>
>> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19662.html)
>>
>> No one's using Linux, claims Microsoft
>> By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
>> Posted: 13/06/2001 at 11:21 GMT
>>
>> Gartner Dataquest has pegged the proportion of Linux
>>servers
>> shipped in the United States at 8.6 per cent.
>>
>> Gartner analyst Jeffery Hewitt claims that this figure
>>- which includes
>> 'white box' shipments, but excludes server appliances
>>such as Sun's
>> Cobalt range - is dramatically lower than the 20 per
>>cent plus cited
>> by arch rivals IDC. Of that 8.6 per cent, eight per
>>cent is attributed to
>> Red Hat and 0.6 per cent to other distros.
>>
>> The survey is dated May 30, but was made public
>>yesterday.
>>
>> We don't usually hear about analyst surveys from
>>vendors in advance
>> of publication. But yesterday a note dropped in from
>>Microsoft's PR
>> company, Waggener Edstrom.
>>
>> "8.6 per cent is... certainly in line with what we are
>>hearing from our
>> customers and partners," wrote a friendly Wagg-Ed flak.
>>
>> Now there's some dispute over what a 'shipment'
>>actually involves,
>> as NewsForge's Rob 'roblimo' Miller points out in this
>>analysis. And
>> he has a very good point: for example, Gartner pegs
>>Linux
>> shipments in the supercomputer space as 'zero' this
>>year. In fact
>> Linux is well established on commodity parallel
>>clusters at many
>> scientific sites. Many of these were assembled
>>in-house, so a
>> shipment clearly doesn't correlate to a working
>>installation.
>>
>> However, Microsoft's pre-emptive strike may be
>>tactical. Hewitt
>> actually predicts that volume shipments of Linux - even
>>using
>> Gartner's contested definition of 'shipment' and
>>'server' - will
>> mushroom in the next four years.
>>
>> Total worldwide Linux deployment will quadruple from
>>2.4 million to
>> 9.1 million, predicts Gartner, with explosive growth in
>>the
>> supercomputer area: up from that dubious 'zero' this
>>year to over
>> 5000 by 2005. In the $25,000 to $100,000 range - the
>>low-end
>> company workhorse - Linux shipments will increase
>>ninefold. In the
>> sub-$5000 space, Linux will grow over six fold.
>>
>> So this may be a case of the Beast getting its
>>retaliation in first.
>>
>> Might be interesting to know :-)
>> Paul
>
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