The biggest problem with using sales figures is that it has been darn near impossible to get x86 based equipment from OEMs without MS-Windows. From my experience, even when it was available, it was either more expensive without it and/or slower to ship. So the solution was to just give in and order the MS one, though the first thing it ever booted was an install disk for Linux.
Surveys are difficult, too. It depends a lot on who you ask and where. In 1998, it was especially difficult as surveys among CTOs and CFOs claimed no FOSS software in the infrastructure, but surveys of the tech staff showed that FOSS was status quo.
-Lars
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt?number=3271On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This remind me of a recent audio-webcast by osviews where most of the gartner numbers were fundamentally wrong. As they label market share versus server installs.
http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1661&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Lider of OpenOffice.org Espa�ol http://es.openoffice.org/
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