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
NotParker, I'm tired of you constantly misrepresenting numbers to make them say what you want.
You sound like a broken record. Since you keep copy/pasting the same disinformation, I'll just keep correcting you by doing the same.
You just cut and paste your replies. You know what you sound like? A broken record.
IDC had Linux at 3% in Jan. 2005.
Webstats are too inaccurate to determine market share.
Linux server has 28% market share (which by default means per unit).
Windows' greater market share per revenue is due to it being overpriced.
Linux server growth is moderating towards a healthy 5%, more than Windows, after enjoying double-digit growth because it basically started from near zero. It would have been impossible for Linux to continue growing at such a phenomenal pace, because such a growth would have been exponential.
How much math did you study? Because your gross misunderstanding of statistics is appalling.
Ill correct some more new lies:
Unix beneifts from revenue numbers because they tend to be multi-CPU servers. Just like Windows.
Wrong. Linux tends to be found more multi-CPU servers than Windows. Linux scales better than Windows on multi-CPU servers.
There is no rhyme or reason to your latest fantasy that market share by revenue is more representative than by unit. They're just two way to look at the same data, but you prefer to present it by revenue because the Linux numbers appear smaller.
Oh, and I love how you throw so many numbers around that you lose yourself in them. On one line you say:
When your growth drops from 30% to 5.4% in one year...
And then you say that it went from 20% to 5.4%.
20% ...*
6.1%....*
5.4%......*
Another example of your lack of mathematical knowledge is when you claim that "the last data point on a downward sloping graph is not levelling out."
As I have demonstrated before, the difference between Year -2 and year -1 is greater than between year -1 and year 0. This indicates that the rate of decrease is itself decreasing. Also, the difference between Q3 and Q4 is much, much less than (year 1 - year 0)/4 which means that the rate of decrease has almost leveled out.
Therefore, this leads to the conclusion that the decrease in Linux growth is moderating to a level near 5%, which as I've stated is still more than for Windows last year.
Why do you keep bringing up the same lies when I can easily prove them false everytime? Didn't you know that truth trumps deceit? Your falsehoods are not suddenly become truer just because you repeat them over and over and over...
Member since:2006-06-01
IDC had Linux at 3% in Jan. 2005.
And close to 300 million PC's have been sold since then with Windows on them.
Do you have any numbers from the latter half of 2006?
Wrong. Linux tends to be found more multi-CPU servers than Windows.
Do you have any references?
The Linux server market share by revenue from Q3 2005 to Q3 2006 was 5.4%.
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn112206-story01.html
For Q3 2004 to Q3 2005 it had grown by 34.3%.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20013705
34.3% growth to 5.4% growth in 1 year.
OUCH!!!!!
COmparing the same quarters 1 year and 2 years is the proper methodology because different quarters have different buying patterns.)
Do you have any numbers from 2006?
Edited 2006-12-12 05:44
Member since:
2006-06-01
IDC had Linux at 3% in Jan. 2005.
That was an estimate 2 years and 250-300 million PC's ago (most installed with Windows on them).
Do you have anything current?
Linux server has 28% market share (which by default means per unit).
Not according to numbers from 2006.
It has 11.8% of server revenue share which factors in multiple CPU servers based on revenue.
It really doesn't make sense to count a 500$ 1 CPU server the same as 5,000,000 128CPU server.
Windows' greater market share per revenue is due to it being overpriced.
Unix beneifts from revenue numbers because they tend to be multi-CPU servers. Just like Windows.
Linux server growth is moderating towards a healthy 5%
When your growth drops from 30% to 5.4% in one year the last data point on a downward sloping graph is not levelling out.
Linux revenue growth is approaching zero. Once upone a time (3 years ago) it was at 60% per year.
60% *
40% ..*
20% ...*
6.1%....*
5.4%......*
are you stalking me by any chance?
Countering your out of date FUD estimates with facts is not stalking.