No, it overinflates *GUI* linux users. A linux server doesn't count. This is about a GUI, not just any arbitrary JVM (You don't use JavaFX (the library, not the language) unless you're going to paint widgets, obviously!)
Possibly linux usage is overinflated a bit; I'm expecting virtually every desktop linux user to know and frequent wikipedia and associated sites, whereas no doubt a sizable amount of windows users either don't know about it or use it rarely. Either way, though, a bit below 1%, or a smidge above 2%. I doubt that changes the gist of my argument: Without the ~9% share that macs now have, especially if you weight the market share to influence (which, granted, also boosts posix numbers a bit), JavaFX as a multi-platform technology is a joke. For desktop stuff, I'm basically assering that "Multiplatform" implies "Runs on Macs and on Windows with a minimum of hassle", and the rest is gravy. If you want to take your 'multi-platform' to a larger scope you'd also have to toss android, iPhone, and possibly WebOS and perhaps (time will tell) Win7 in there, but writing one app that has good usability on all of that is basically impossible anyway, so its not that important. For _developer_ share its important that linux works too, but it can be a very arduous install procedure, and it won't matter. On Oct 25, 12:41 am, Ben Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 Okt., 00:13, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [...] a platform that has less than 1% market share (all non-mac posixes > > combined). > > The figures that -- to me -- seem most reliable are those from > wikimedia[1] which place Linux at 2.04%. If anything I'd say they > favor Windows in that Linux users might be using their system for > things other than wikimedia services, but whatever. > > With kind regards > Ben > > [1]:http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSyste... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
