Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh 926
prostoalex writes "Business Week magazine is optimistic about desktop Linux's future, telling a story of Capital Cardiology Associates, whose 160 employees migrated to Linux desktops. Furthermore, Business Week expects IDC to announce desktop Linux installations to reach 3.2%, for the first time overtaking Macintosh market share. By 2007, IDC forecasts, Linux will be installed on 6% of the desktops. It's also worth mentioning that desktop Linux market share for 2002 was 2.8% and that year it was behind Apple's operating system."
just to get it out of the way (Score:1, Funny)
Apple is dying. Macintosh is Dying
No its not. OS X rules.
Now onto some actual discussion.
Now if we could just get... (Score:4, Funny)
and Mac - 49%
Re:WOW (Score:5, Funny)
So that means in 2052 we'll have over 50% market share!
And in 2102 we'll be on 100% of all machines!!
And in 2202 there'll be 2 Linux distros on every machine!!!
And in 2302
Re:Good news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WOW (Score:5, Funny)
We'll be used as batteries for our robotic overlords, whom I for one welcome
Re:FACTS PLEASE (Score:4, Funny)
And I've never seen Bigfoot but I know it exists. Your point?
-dameron
Re:WOW (Score:3, Funny)
And a gay president by 2065?
"We're trying to be realistic."
To paraphrase Disraeli (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As A Mac User (Score:1, Funny)
I won't though. Linux for my desktop and BSD for my servers. No one argue with me about my choice for servers, I can't help it. Some girl in this hot devil outfit came up to me and gave me this CD once, and that's the closest I've come to having a date... So I'm sticking with BSD for my fond memories of my closest encounter yet with a hot woman...
Re:FIrst post W00T (Score:3, Funny)
Re:As A Mac User (Score:5, Funny)
It's not purple... (Score:1, Funny)
It's not purple, it's grape.
Besides, purple is for pussies. I hack on a "Flower Power" iMac myself.
Re:Now if we could just get... (Score:4, Funny)
Now now. If that were to really happen, we two factions would have no choice but to kill each other...
Right now, we occasionally fight, but we don't have to. We're doing it strictly for fun.
But.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Er... (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, and guess what. Nobody gives a shit about fuckwits who use Performa 6300s or bondi blue iMacs. They don't buy software. They don't buy hardware. They don't even buy new Macs.
So, Apple has an enormous amount of deadweight userbase. Yey! Nobody care cares but the foaming zealots.
--posted from a mac.
Re:Good news (Score:1, Funny)
Oh no... soon Mac users will run the country because only the rich can afford to buy a computer from Apple and a congressman.
Re:As A Mac User (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WOW (Score:1, Funny)
Re:More design software for Linux on the cards the (Score:2, Funny)
So they are zealots too, in other words.
Re:More design software for Linux on the cards the (Score:1, Funny)
Heh, If You Can't Afford It... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But.... (Score:2, Funny)
Kierthos
Re:Never seen a Mac in my life (Score:1, Funny)
If you're ever in Warsaw go down Nowowiejska from the subway station to the Warsaw Instiute of Technology, you'll find an Apple dealer on your left side
Not many of them out in the wild though.
Do I count? (Score:3, Funny)
CB
Re:Statistics (Score:2, Funny)
I find the above statement highly dubious. Do you have a survey to support this?
Re:if only apple was x86 (Score:3, Funny)
You have to press keys, how gauche.
I bet you've never even tried a proper [bell-labs.com] interface.
Um, yes, it's free. (Score:3, Funny)
How hard do you think it is for someone to switch from a properly functioning product (Mac/Windows/commercial Unix) to an inferior similar that costs +inf% less than what they used?
I happen to like cashmere and silk, but most of my clothing is cotton or cotton+polyester.
Duh.
Re:Now if we could just get... (Score:4, Funny)