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Re: [LUG] market share

 

On Monday 29 October 2007 09:38, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Looks like the market share for Linux has gone down,  however the people
> responding have different perceptions.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/26/linux-way
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> Surely with migration,  once you have migrated from Unix to Linux your
> not going to show up in stats for another year,.   anyway makes
> interesting reading.
Its also very wrong...
Apparently there is a decrease in its rate of increase...
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8060720094.html
see also
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/29/vista-sales-slow

and as most people dont pay for an install it dont get on the stats whereas we 
have a good idea how many windows 'shipments' there are as they call home - 
or the installer calls for support. 
Tom te tom te tom
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