European governments have long complained about their dependence on Microsoft's software, but their rhetoric has not turned into a mass migration away from Windows. During the past few years, Europe's elected officials have made a lot of noise about ambitious projects to switch to open source software, including big migrations of government PCs in France, Germany, Spain and Norway. Yet the actual migrations have been negligible. More than 95 percent of all PCs used by European government workers still run on Windows, according to the market research firm IDC.
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Member since:2005-07-02
IDC, a company which you yourself have described as reliable, places Linux at 3% as of Jan. 2005, estimating 6% for 2006.
The number you give is based on web stats, which cannot be used to accurately reflect market share.
Stop spreading misinformation in order to further your anti-Linux agenda.
Member since:2006-06-01
IDC, a company which you yourself have described as reliable, places Linux at 3% as of Jan. 2005, estimating 6% for 2006
Gartner suggested 1.3% at most because of all the people who remove Linux and replace it with a pirated copy of Windows. And that was a 2 year old estimate.
You see, the desktop market has grown condierably in the last two years. Linux hasn't.
Do you have any numbers from 2006?
Linux on TheCounter has 1/9th the share Win98 does (3%).
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/December/os.php
Hitslink has Linux at .37%.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
As we all know, Linux market share in servers is dropping. There is no reason not to think Linux's desktop share has dropped as well from 1.3%
In Q1 of 2006 Linux had 12.2% of server revenue.
In Q2 of 2006 Linux had 12.0% of server revenue.
In Q3 of 2006 Linux had 11.8% of server revenue.
References:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20180706
"Although Linux servers now represent 12.2% of all server revenue, revenue growth for the quarter was approximately half the growth rate observed in 1Q05"
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=11637
"Linux servers now represent 12.0% of all server revenue, up slightly from Q2 2005."
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn112206-story01.html
"Linux machines accounted for 11.8 percent of overall server sales, and its growth has moderated considerably."
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2006-06-01
Actually, it has between 3 and 6%.
There is a 3 and a 6 involved.
.36%