Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Feb 2009 12:00 UTC
Since it's nigh on impossible to produce accurate figures of operating system usage, we have to make do with figures that provide a rough estimate, at best. One such set of statistics are the figures from Net Applications, which tracks the 160 million monthly visitors to its hosted websites. The latest figures from January 2009 have been published, and they show that the rise of Mac OS X continues, as well as that of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unsurprisingly, Windows 7 did quite well too.
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2005-11-15
This has absolutely nothing to do with marketing. This has everything to do with creating a real product.
Linux on the server side is holding its own. Yes there are promoters like IBM, and Redhat, etc. But the fact is that Linux on the server side makes a whole lot of sense. Linux on the client side makes NO sense.
3 years ago I said Linux on the desktop was dead, and it did not get anywhere.
Though now I actually have some hope. Namely in the form of Nokia. Nokia is doing an LGPL with QT, which means that now people can develop closed source apps for KDE. That will make a huge dent.
KDE always was better than GNOME, but the stupid GPL licensing has always held it back. On top of that with Trolltech charging several thousand nobody was interested.