On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Roy wood wrote:

> Linux is not actually successful. This is a myth perpetrated by those
> who want to believe it. Most system operate under Windoze. I am not
> saying it is not viable but, in the real world most systems run Windoze.
> Many things are available only for Windoze systems Many things do not
> work under LINUX.

Here are the stats from our colocation facility:

Windows NT 4        4.5%
Windows 2000       13.5%
Windows XP         28.5%
Linux              44.0%
*BSD                3.0%
Mac OS X            4.5%
Others              2.0%
QDOS/SMSQ           0.0%

This only includes machines we have stats for. The most telling thing for
us is that the number of *dows boxes and *n*x boces is about equal, but we
receive seven times more calls to restart *dows machines. These figures
are collated weekly, and in every week the number of *dows boxes has
declined and the number of *n*x boxes increased. Considering customer
churn, the number of Windows machines is remaining constant and the number
of Linux machines is increasing by about 30 a week.

Having said all that, I think we've gone horribly off-topic. Why not check
out the 'last try' thread ;)

Dave, grinning madly.

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