Peter Alcibiades wrote:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/09/debunking-the-1-myth.html
Saw this today. Martin is an intelligent well informed writer. Its
admittedly OT but maybe worth posting in view of recent discussions about
the potential for the Linux flavor of Rev.
Nice to see that - thanks for posting it.
For many years Mac folks have become aware of how common metrics which
attempt to measure "market share" are often distorted in favor of
Windows, and there the author does a good job of explaining how that
dynamic applies to Linux as well.
It seems Google is among those Linux users, running their search engine
with Ubuntu:
These clusters all run a Google-optimized version of Ubuntu Linux,
according to Google's open source programs manager Chris DiBona in
a 2010 presentation at OSCON, an open-source developer conference.
<http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/large-business/google-data-center.aspx?dgc=SM&cid=57468&lid=1491495>
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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