----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: RE: Win 98 Registry (Shortened down response to a long thread)
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Dan Minette > > [snip] > > > I won't argue with that. And, the people running servers tend to be folks > > who work on computers because compter systems are their jobs, so that fits > > my model. But, most networks have more desktops than servers. I have no > > arguement that Linux can find a server nitch. And, maybe that's a bigger > > market than I envision. Do you have an idea of the relative size of the > > server vs. desktop market? > > Nobody has really good numbers, since it's not clear how many end up used as > servers, but it is a big number, no more than 100 desktop machines per > server (counting all the home machines, of course), and probably no less > than 50. In business, the ratio is more like 10:1. > > A quote from a recent news article on PC server OSes: > > "On the server side, IDC said Microsoft won 41 percent of new licenses in > 2000, compared to Linux with 27 percent, other Unix variants with 13.9 > percent and Novell Inc.'s Netware with 13.8 percent." > > That's the really telling number -- 27 percent is significant in anyone's > book, especially when it was zero just a few years ago. Hmm, I'd guess I would be curious to see if Linux took market share away from Microsoft or from other Unix. I'd argue that the shares of the different flavors of Unix don't matter as much as the summed Unix shares. Dan M.
