On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:15 -0500, "Leland F. Jackson, CPA" <[email protected]> wrote: > Did your 3% Desktop Linux adoption rate come from a Steve Ballmer > survey?
It all depends on the definition of 'desktop Linux adoption rate' which is as you say blurred by the fact that a lot of people-dual boot and use one or other OS in virtual machines. I don't see what the use of Linux in Blackberry and the like has to do with the *desktop* adoption rate. Given that, the number of people that use Linux either as a primary or secondary OS, or in the Mac, has to be way more than 3%. > > Many desktops running the windows OS act as thin clients when connected > to the web, or as a windows clients connected to a Linux terminal > server. The real application is likely running on a Linux server > somewhere on the internet, and the application with its data is actually > running in Linux with the thin client as the standard output. In this > scenario, I would say the desktop, for all intent and purposes, is > really consuming or running a Linux OS . All the action today is in the > internet, and Linux is the king of the internet. That's where the > action is. I would say that's a bit tenuous - if a PC boots into Windows and then uses a Linux-served web application or an application on a Linux server via a terminal, it's still running Windows, or vice versa. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
