[Novalug] market share?

Dan Arico dan_arico@aricosystems.com
Mon Jul 7 14:00:48 EDT 2008


On Monday 07 July 2008 01:53:30 pm Ed James wrote:
> Well,  I've got 4 machines which originally had Windoze on them but
> which got wiped and now have Linux on them.  I'll bet the beancounters
> don't know that.  Even the websites that record the OS used by each
> hit prolly don't count all 4, but only see the one external IP address
> that my router uses
>
> Ed James

For that matter, people who have multiple computers behind their routers are 
probably more likely to be running Linux than the average user.

I really can't think of any good way to come up with an accurate idea of how 
many Linux machines are out there. The big question for the marketing types 
is probably a different one, anyway. They want to know how many 
business/institutional users are going to run Linux. Those are the people 
they will be selling to.

Dan Arico

-- 
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them,
In the land of Redmond, where the Sales Reps lie.



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