Olá, apesar desse assunto ser offtopic, é muito interessante: veja no site Newsforge, a matéria "90% Windows, 5% Mac, 5% Linux? Not true!"
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/1846240 Eles explicam como esses números foram calculados: foi usado como critério o fato do S.O. vir ou não instalado de fábrica. Como muito poucas empresas pré-instalam GNU/Linux, essa conta saiu assim baixa. Mau negócio para o Gartner Group, que até aqui era considerado confiável e que, em uma pesquisa financiada, entre outros pela Microsoft, deu essa informação errônea. No slashdot, há a chamada "Gartner Claims Less Linux Than IDC" que compara estudos do Gartner, usando a metodologia (!) acima, com aqueles do IDC, com outra metodologia, em http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2222207&mode=thread Também há uma discussão sobre o tema, com observações nem sempre cordatas ou gentis. :) []s, Hilton --- Nitrogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lista, > > Dêem uma olhada nesta notícia que achein o site na mandrake. Pode-se > notar > que agora somos tratados pela microsoft como 'ninguém' (rs). > > Abraços, > Leonardo Custodio > ________________________________________ > > << Debian Linux: Resistance is futile! >> > << e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > ------------- Attach ------------- > No one's using Linux, claims Microsoft > By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco > Posted: 13/06/2001 at 11:21 GMT > > > Gartner Dataquest has pegged the proportion of Linux servers shipped > in the > United States at 8.6 per cent. > > Gartner analyst Jeffery Hewitt claims that this figure - which > includes > 'white box' shipments, but excludes server appliances such as Sun's > Cobalt > range - is dramatically lower than the 20 per cent plus cited by arch > rivals > IDC. Of that 8.6 per cent, eight per cent is attributed to Red Hat > and 0.6 > per cent to other distros. > > The survey is dated May 30, but was made public yesterday. > > We don't usually hear about analyst surveys from vendors in advance > of > publication. But yesterday a note dropped in from Microsoft's PR > company, > Waggener Edstrom. > > "8.6 per cent is... certainly in line with what we are hearing from > our > customers and partners," wrote a friendly Wagg-Ed flak. > > Now there's some dispute over what a 'shipment' actually involves, as > NewsForge's Rob 'roblimo' Miller points out in this analysis. And he > has a > very good point: for example, Gartner pegs Linux shipments in the > supercomputer space as 'zero' this year. In fact Linux is well > established > on commodity parallel clusters at many scientific sites. Many of > these were > assembled in-house, so a shipment clearly doesn't correlate to a > working > installation. > > However, Microsoft's pre-emptive strike may be tactical. Hewitt > actually > predicts that volume shipments of Linux - even using Gartner's > contested > definition of 'shipment' and 'server' - will mushroom in the next > four > years. > > Total worldwide Linux deployment will quadruple from 2.4 million to > 9.1 > million, predicts Gartner, with explosive growth in the supercomputer > area: > up from that dubious 'zero' this year to over 5000 by 2005. In the > $25,000 > to $100,000 range - the low-end company workhorse - Linux shipments > will > increase ninefold. In the sub-$5000 space, Linux will grow over six > fold. > > So this may be a case of the Beast getting its retaliation in first. > ® > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
