"Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I just noted this interesting Factoid
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Grassroots computing
>> Linux Expo highlights open-source system
>>
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>> | Currently, only 16 percent of PC users in the United States have Linux,a
>> | and although that percentage pleases Szmajda and Joe Monti, the club's
>> | other co-president, those numbers seem woefully small for an operating
>> | system that is virtually hassle-proof.
>
> Let's see. 16 percent of the PC users have Linux.
No they dont. Sorry. Impossible : a casual "real world" poll would put
paid to that idea. I'd be very suprised if it was anymore than 2-5%.
> That's about 34 million, just in the united states.
>
Not a chance.
> Another 12% are Macs. That puts the total at 28%. Which means that
> only 72% of the PCs are running Linux exclusively, even though 99% of
> the PCs were sold with Windows.
A typo there I think.
>
> The good news is that if Linux is growing at 40%/year, and Mac is
It's not.
> getting similar growth, this means that about 13 million new users will
> be adopting Linux, and about as many will be adopting Macs, putting
> "enhanced" systems at about 30 million or about 40% of annual U.S.
> sales. That's a huge shift for an aftermarket shift. Keep in mind
If it were true.
> that other countries with larger populations and more new users, Linux
> has market shares as high as 40%. The US has the lowest Linux adoption
> rate as a percentage of the PC user base.
One would not be too surprised there : the US is alwys a bit behind the
curve compared to, say, Germany where Linux is more popular than it is
in, say, England.
>
> The last time we saw that kind of aftermarket growth was Trumpet
> Winsock and Netscape, within 2 years, 200 million users, the equivalent
> of double the annual sales of PCs, were using the Internet and Web
> browsers. Today, nearly 1 billion devices are used to access the Web.
>
>> http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_4245848
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