That is now changing with some of the big computer companies, including
Dell. They offer the option to have Linux or Windows installed.
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> There have been many rebuttals published to this article all over the
> Internet: aboutlinux.com, linuxtoday.com, lwn.net, and even ZDNet
> itself. Gartner Dataquest's figures (sponsored by Microsoft) are in
> direct contrast to those made by other research companies. IDC, for
> example, gives GNU/Linux a share of about 24%. IDC and others
> recognise that most GNU/Linux installations are not bought
> shrink-wrapped like proprietary OSs are, and that a single copy can be
> used on an unlimited number of computers.
>
> Also, many vendors don't give the option of buying a computer without
> Windows. People are forced to pay for Windows licenses, but when they
> get their computers they wipe the hard drive and install GNU/Linux. As
> the computer is not purchased with GNU/Linux initially installed, it
> is counted as a Windows machine.
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A story from www.theregister.co.uk:
> >
> > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19662.html)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Might be interesting to know :-)
> > Paul
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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