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[News] "Year of Desktop Linux"... No Such Thing

  • Subject: [News] "Year of Desktop Linux"... No Such Thing
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:31:51 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Big Picture Stuff

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| The same thing, I believe, with happen with Linux. It will slowly creep up on 
| the IT world until one day someone will notice the landscape has been 
| completely changed. At that time, the media wags will declare the Year of the 
| Linux Desktop, but that won't really mark the tipping point--no one will 
| really know when that happened, unless we were really paying attention.    
| 
| Like all good projects, the success of Linux on the desktop will happen over 
| time, not all at once. So maybe we can put away the media hype this year. And 
| the next.   
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-21-015-26-OP-CY-DT


Related:

The year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived

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| While Windows advocates may smirk and say here we go again, as 2007 draws to 
| a close I get the strong feeling that we may look back upon this year and
| recognize it with hindsight as the year that the Linux desktop finally 
| arrived. There are a number of events that point to 2007 as being the turning 
| point for Linux and it all started in January with the release of Windows 
| Vista.     
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15177/1023/


Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft

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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from 
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red 
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in 
| revenue and an increase in profit.   
| 
| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for 
| open source software,” Szulik says. 
| 
| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen, 
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to 
| displace.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3


Playing the numbers game: how many Linux installations and users are out there?

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| But smolt is only an opt-in tool and is not offered during text installations 
| (Servers, etc.) at all. According to Fedora’s statistics page the estimated 
| ratio between smolt data and reality is 1 to 10. This would result in 1.25 
| million Fedora users - and therefore in 25 million Linux users.   
|
| [...]
| 
| There is another possible approach to these numbers: Ubuntu’s Mark 
| Shuttleworth estimated 8 million Ubuntu users in an interview in late 
| December 2006. And both the Linux Desktop Survey and the web server logs from 
| Distro Watch gave Ubuntu roughly 30 % of the cake. This makes more than 26.6 
| million Linux users 8 month ago.    
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/playing-the-numbers-game-how-many-linux-installations-and-users-are-out-there/

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