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On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:57, Richard Jenniss wrote:
> Honestly put, man. ...
> Linux has < 1% of the desktop market.
> (If I'm wrong, on these figures, PLEASE, update me)
probably are, since those figures are damn hard to nail down properly and are
always a year or more old.
i'm not saying it has 10% of the market, or even 5% .. but .......
desktop roll-outs are occuring (e.g. that area in Germany) and you won't hear
of many of them until they've been in place for a year or more, if ever.
i'm working with a company in town here to transition over 100+ systems from
windows to linux/kde (SuSe, to be exact). it won't happen over night, but it
is happening.
and just like on the server side, we'll be "told" that it isn't happening for
as long as it isn't painfully obvious that it is. bottom line is that it is
growing on the desktop, not losing market share or stagnating at the same
levels. and the growth has only recently been possible due to a large number
of factors.
> I honestly don't think, Linux, and the free software it can be bundle'd
> with, in many of the latest distributions, IS NOT desktop ready. It's not,
> It's not, It's not. Unbiased and I hate microsoft, but I don't thinkk ALL
> distributions are desktop ready yet.
well, you (and others) are free to say "it's not" as many times in a row as
you wish. bottom line is that for many, it is.
there are still holes in the application selection, but those are quickly
being covered either by new native apps or by platform compatibility
libraries (e.g. WINE as provided by CodeWeavers). the holes that remain even
after those advancements typically affect a rather small % of the market. and
right now there is so much of the market left to conquer (or is that konquer?
;) that it hardly matters.
i would be interested in knowing what specially makes you say that it's not,
it's not, it's not ready?
(personally, i think if it were so damn obvious it wasn't ready, you wouldn't
need to say it three times like some supertitious chant ;)
> I honestly DO NOT THINK that Linux is ready for the desktoop, till mid
> 2005.
why mid 2005? are you catching Gartneritis, or have you missed what we have
right now and what people like SuSe are providing now and in the next 6
months?
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