Business is not Evil (was: HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu)

[Wade Smart]

11172005 2137 GMT-5

I think this is pretty easy to see why. Who pays for surveys? Companies 
who sell software. If they dont pay directly, they pay indirectly by 
purchasing reports. But the thing is, if there are X,xxx number of linux 
distro's available, and they are all not 100% on the desktop (and Im 
just speaking in broad terms) then the only market that people are 
caring to read about is Windows and its apps. Obviously apache is a bit 
different.

Linspire just release a deal where they are putting GIMP and OpenOffice 
as commercial products:
    http://comparesoft.com/products.html

Read the whole article here: http://www.michaelrobertson.com/

I think that says a lot for the average user. They just dont know. And 
if they dont know, all the reports in the world wont make a difference.

Wade


rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

>On 11/17/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
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>>No, it isn't.  Ask the Gartner group how they count market share.  I
>>haven't
>>said that Linux doesn't have an appreciable number of users - I'm saying
>>that surveys listing "market share" NEVER include non-commercial software.
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>NEVER?  :)
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>* http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=330693
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>"End-user research done in 2000 presents a good picture of the real
>market share of Linux as a server operating system and serves to
>project the probable market share for Linux this year, as well as a
>Linux server forecast through 2005."
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>* http://news.com.com/Apache+zooms+away+from+Microsofts+Web+server/2100-7344_3-5139511.html
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>"Apache grew far more rapidly in 2003 than its nearest rival,
>Microsoft's Internet Information Services, according to a new
>survey--meaning that the open-source software remains by far the most
>widely used Web server on the Internet.
>...
> Apache's market share grew from about 62 percent to about 67 percent,
>while that of IIS dropped from 27 percent to 21 percent."
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>* http://ooosmp.homelinux.org/CommunityReview/MarketingGoals
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>"Gartner Group predicted in May 2002 that the OpenOffice.org codebase
>could eventually reach 10% market share"
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>http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Gartner-caution-on-Firefox-takeup/2005/02/09/1107890254074.html?oneclick=true
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>"Gartner said features such as tabbed browsing, integrated search,
>better support for standards, easy installation and removal procedures
>and the fact that Firefox had no deep hooks into the operating
>system's innards were all rated as pluses by users.
>...
>They predicted that as Firefox's share of the browser market grew, it
>would increasingly be targeted by malicious code."
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>>derek
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