____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 23 April 2008 07:25 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 21 April 2008 16:54 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Matt on Friday 04 April 2008 11:22 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> They must be looking at their peer to find successful
>>>>>> migration. It's the domino effect.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
>>>>>> We are not alone
>>>>>> Munich doesn ?t work isolated: intensive transfer of know-how with
>>>>>> other agencies, internationale partners and the Open Source Community
>>>>>> generates solutions.
>>>>
>>>> It's not just Germany, either. Same story in Holland where they probably
>>>> migrate even more 'aggressively'. Microsoft goes a long way at the moment
>>>> (even donating hardware) to slow down the momentum, but the outcome seems
>>>> inevitable.
>>>>
>>>> The following was said just a couple of days ago by a firm that is largely
>>>> funded by Microsoft:
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Gartner estimates that the market share for desktop Linux is about 2% in
>>>>| the Asia-Pacific region, 4.5% in Eastern Europe, and 4% in the Middle
>>>>| East and Africa. By contrast, Linux holds 1.2% of the desktop market in
>>>>| the U.S.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001577
>>>>
>>>> The real figures are higher than this and I imagine they only check
>>>> businesses, not home. They use Microsoft-supplies figures in many cases.
>> ^
>> d
>>
>>> Even so, those figures are not so small that they can be ignored. The
>>> key thing to couple with these figures are the sales figures. The
>>> Amazon numbers are fascinating... Just taking a look now, we see that
>>>
>>> no.1 Acer notebook, "Vista home premium" down from £399 to £329
>>> no.2 Vaio laptop, "Vista home premium" down from £926 to £699
>>> no.3 Vaio laptop, "Vista home premium" down from £529 to £469
>>> no.4 Acer notbook "Vista home basic" down from £299 to £289
>>> No.5 Acer notebook "Vista Home premium" down from £399 to £349
>>> No.6 HP pavillion "Vista Home premium" at £389
>>> ... and it continues with heavily discounted Vista models until you
>>> get to number 8 which is an Asus Eee at £191.
>>>
>>> An Asus Eee is also at slot number 18, and the Nokia N810 is at slot
>>> number 24.
>>>
>>> The 4Gig, 7" Eee has fallen down to number 59, although it's rather
>>> expensive at £269, well above the original price of £209. If Asus could
>>> make more, I think they'd sell a *lot* more of them.
>>>
>>> The interesting thing here, though, is that the Windows machines are
>>> being heavily discounted, whereas the Linux ones are actually being sold
>>> well above the originally listed price.
>>
>> The UK will probably adapt FOSS even /after/ the US does (i.e. last). It's
>> that 'special relationship'.
>>
>
> To be honest, I think that sometimes there is a genuine disadvantage to
> have a more or less compatible language - it seems to result in people
> here being more willing to believe the marketing tosh, lobbying and so
> on than people from non-English speaking geographries.
>
> It's more a sort of "special gullibility" than a "special relationship".
For sure, but language is just one aspect of shared and common heritage that
impacts looks, names and even interpersonal chmistry.
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