On 10/21/05, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Yankee Group estimates that OOo has 19% market share in SMBs: > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dancer?entry=19_percent_market_share_in
The actual story - found here: http://www.toptechnews.com/news/OpenOffice-org-2-0-Release-Delayed/story.xhtml?story_id=03100339SMZN- only says "She did point out, though, that Sun's StarOffice open-source Latest News about open source offering has attained a 19 percent market share among small to midsize businesses." There are no links and no references to any studies or surveys to back that up. * Forrester study suggests that OOo has an 8-9% market share in large > companies and an additional ~6% plan to use it: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6407 This blog is over a year and a half old - and there's no link to any type of a story to back it up. The website linked in the story has no articles available through search with the words "Forresters Research" or " openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org> 140". And saying that 12 out of 140 companies "use" OpenOffice.org does not mean that OOo has a 8.5% market share of Large Business. If one computer in the company (which has 1000s of computers) could have OOo on it. That doesn't mean *all* of those computers now belong to OOo's market share. Granted, I'm sure more than one computer has it - but you can't say that the entire company is now OOo's just because they claim to "use OpenOffice.org". Those numbers are (a) unsubstantiated and (b) they don't even work if the "facts" you gave actually were true! Keep trying, Daniel! -Chad
