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Open-source activists gathered at LinuxWorld Expo late last week to protest what they say are anti-Linux campaigns being spearheaded on Capitol Hill by rivals the SCO Group and Microsoft. Thursday evening, Linux lobbyists, academics, programmers and ISVs predicted the political battle will heighten as Linux gains ground on the desktop, and as governments worldwide--including the U.S. federal government and several U.S. states--consider adopting open-source procurement policies. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (198.246.16.251) at 1/28/2004 9:42:26 AM |
| All is fair in love and lobbying. |
| #2 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at 1/28/2004 11:04:02 AM |
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Parker, where did you come up with the 1% figure from? The only data I have seen (recently at least) is on techweb which says Linux's share of the desktop also increased slightly to 2.8 percent from 2.3 percent.
link is below http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031008S0013 |
| #3 By 7797 (63.76.44.252) at 1/28/2004 11:07:40 AM |
| parker's source is google zeitgeist |
| #4 By 19992 (68.69.127.19) at 1/28/2004 11:20:05 PM |
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Therefore I must conclude the data is wrong, or the users who are buying PC's with Linux on them do so and then wipe the drive clean and install a pirated version of Windows.
Which has no bearing whatsoever on market share. Market share is the percentage of a market that a company/solution provides, in this case Linux. Most market share reports reflect the amount of new sales that a product has had within a given time period (say one fiscal quarter or one year). I think you are referring to install base, which may be accurately reflected in the Google Zeitgeist, but that is almost impossible to verify as being more than 75% accurate. One must also conclude that Google underestimates Windows share and overestimates Linux market share because MSN and AOL users would be almost exclusively be Windows users, thereby diluting the percentage of Windows users that use Google as a search engine. Irrelevant. That has nothing to do with market share. This post was edited by happyguy on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 23:23. |
| #5 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at 1/29/2004 8:33:26 AM |
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If Linux had a market share of 2.8% in 2002 and a similar share in 2003, then the Google Zeitgeist should have shown some increase in Linux install base by the end of 2003 since over 250 million PC's were sold in the last 2 years.
Not necessarily. The Zeitgeist numbers are based on about 55 billion hits. Since we are apparently accepting that the 55 billion hits represent the actual numbers of machines in use in the world we'll assume that each of the hits represents an individual PC. To continue the world of make believe, if we pretend that the sales figures from the last two years of 250 million were all Linux machines, that would only give Linux .45% of the install base, while it would have represented a 100% market share for the past two years. Instead, it is at 1% Jan 2001 and was at 1% in Jan 2002, and 1% in Jan 2003 and is still at 1%. Quite true, of the 250 million machines sold in the last two years, Linux was installed on about seven million of them. Once again, in keeping with the "fact" that there are 55 billion separate machines in use out there (an assumption I have to make since you seem to think that this accurately represents market share), seven million machines works out to an increase of .013%. So the Google numbers would not necessarily dismiss the reality that Linux accounted for 2.8% of the desktop OS sales for the 2002 fiscal year, would they? Gains ground? 1% of the market year after year after year means there is no chance to gain ground. Wrong. There are gains, they are just extremely minute gains, barely worth measuring at this point. Linux will have to come up with an absolute "killer app" and alot of decent, well-known games if it wants to stand a chance of making serious inroads into the desktop space. |
| #6 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at 1/29/2004 11:38:00 AM |
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I'm not arguing that the Linux desktop install base is insignificant. I was questioning the 1% figure you quoted.
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