Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey.
|
| [...]
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| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Another new study here
http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/linux/1848640/?ILC-RSSFEED&feed=1848640%20rssnews
Recent:
50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already?Desktop OS- Vista vs. Linux
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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, Microsoft reported back in July that 60 million copies of Vista had been
| sold. Now start subtracting the crossgrades to Xp that are not counted as
| sales, and the 3-1 to ratio of Xp to Vista sales. Now, I'm not confident in
| my mathematics, but right now the best I can come up with is a realistic
| install base of around 40 million.
|
| Yes. Desktop Linux Marketshare... is larger than Vista.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
Months ago:
Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their
| Linux distribution of choice.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux,
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users
| in the past year.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
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