From: andreas@fly.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Helke) Subject: Re: how many Linux installs? Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 19:58:10 GMT
In article <1993Sep16.083313.13552@truffula.sj.ca.us>
cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
>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.
>Cameron in San Jose, the forever newbie
In the editorial of the german unix magazine iX 9.93 there are some results of
a readership survey wich shed some light on this issue.
Of the iX readers 6% use linux at work. The most used commercial (not
specified which this is) unix is 33%.
At home 60% use DOS, 56% Windows and 29% linux.
It seems that linux is on the way to become the most widely installed unix
variant, due to the high proportion of home installs.
A Novell add in the same magazine claims that there are 4 million computers
running unix.
If linux is equally widespread in USA as it is in germany, there must be a
considerable number of linux systems.
Andreas