On Thursday 01 November 2007 17:01, Andrew Bowden wrote: > I've been discussing this in the office, so I did some sums > > Having a look at various (non-BBC) site stats I have access to, I'm > seeing a 3-4% market share. Now on some of them, I know I'm counting > towards those stats, but one particular site (with a 3.6% Linux usage) I > don't look at regularly (I just fix broken code on rare occassions). > > Even if we say bbc.co.uk has a 2% Linux usage, that's 340,000 users. And > if we say that bbc.co.uk has a 0.1% Linux usage, that's 17,000. > > Some stats have put Linux desktop usage at as low as 0.26%, so even if > we take the 0.1% figure, I'd expect a lot more than 400-600! > > I have a feeling that there's been a bit of a mistake made somewhere > down the line :)
Linux Format has an ABC figure of 26702. That's a bit higher than 600. It's also very unlikely to be anywhere near the number of people who run Linux. After all, I doubt PC Format gets 17.1 million people buying it each month... Look at it this way - there's more than 600 shops nationwide (Tesco, WH Smiths, newsagents) that sell goods (magazines :) which are targetted at linux users. You need a much bigger market than 600 to make that economically viable year in year out. Someone IS getting their stats wrong. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
