From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Subject: how many Linux installs? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:33:13 GMT
I work for a hardware and systems company. We have an
Interoperability Lab where they install our products on
the OSes our customers run, test our drivers, run
benchmarks, etc.
I want the Lab to install Linux and check it out. But
I can't make a business case for doing it without knowing
how big the Linux market is. (All of Unix is only about
5% of our market.) How many people run Linux,
on how many machines? If you think you know or have a way to
measure, I'd like to hear from you. Thanks.
(BTW, I got my dial-up logins working by switching from
bash to pdksh. Don't know why bash doesn't like my modem,
but I like ksh better anyway, and my users don't care.
Thanks to everyone who offered advice!)
Cameron in San Jose, the forever newbie
cls@truffula.sj.ca.us