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Infoworld Article on Linux Growth 14

Posted by Hemos from the keep-growing dept.
rdsmith writes "This week's Info World has a short article on Linux and its growth over the past few years. It makes a couple of mentions of ESR and the Halloween document. Although the article bases Linux's growth on numbers provided by Redhat, it's still good press for Linux. "
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  • Didn't IDG give Linux a 17% market share, and Unix about the same?
  • IIRC, Linux had a 17.4% market share, and all the commercial unices combined had 17.6%.
  • 17% of the SERVER market, based entirely on SALES, i.e. according to them 17% of the people who actually decided to pay for an web/ftp/whatever server decided they would rather buy a Linux package than anything else.

    Two important words here are SERVERS (i.e. we are not talking about win95/98) and SALES (i.e. we are not talking about the ftp-downloads either)

  • Someone mentions a figure more than 7 million, which seemed to hang in there with the tenaciousness of a nasty cold.

  • Their Editor-in-Chief, Sandy Reed, is on record claiming "NT clearly is the future of computing". Just check their "Web-based voting" forum [infoworld.com] from March/April 1997; especially "Take a look at this Sandy Reed post [infoworld.com]". For some reason, the post mr Joswig refers to gives a 404 error... But then, IWE's forum software has a habit of crashing now and then, mysteriously mangling posts which make good points againt M$ and IW's pro-M$ bias (I know, it's happened to me too). Anyway, when mr Joswig wrote that, it was still there to be checked, so I don't think he made it up. Another goodie is her post Why should I apologize? [infoworld.com] -- Her unsubstantiated allegation that "OS/2 Zealots stuffed the ballot" (on the front page of the print edition) has not yet been retracted; all she did was a lame, half-hearted "apology" for calling them "zealots", buried inside her column a few weeks later.


    Christian R. Conrad


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