Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 31st Mar 2008 22:40 UTC
"Windows' enterprise adoption declined in 2007, with the gains going to Linux and Mac OS. Vista is a bust. Forrester published the data on Thursday, but only released it publicly today. Forrester surveyed a whopping 50,000 users at 2,300-plus large to very large enterprises throughout 2007. Windows' enterprise adoption declined 3.7 percent, going from 98.6 percent in January to 94.9 percent in December. Mac OS gained 3 percent, going from 1.2 percent to 4.2 percent in the same time frame. Linux gained 0.5 percent in 2007." A classic case of 'do with it as you please'.
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2006-01-28
A 3.7% decline per year accrues to 18.5% in five years, which is not insignificant at all.
Whether this trend continues to materialize is anybody's guess, but I think that change will continue to be steady but slow. This makes it both likely that the change will be enduring and that the perception that things have changed will not take hold overnight.
By the time it becomes common knowledge, I am hoping to be a part of a richer, more diverse and more balanced computing landscape.
Having said that, I am not sure I would want to trade Microsoft for Apple as a monopolist. A predominantly open source world would be my ideal, but even a fair split among all three platforms would be a huge advancement.