Culled from the MS Boycoot Bulletin 2001.03.12:
The IDG research group on February 28 released a new study
showing operating system market share. The report showed a few small
changes to the server-side operating system market, with Windows growing
to 41% market share in 2000, compared to 38% the previous year. Linux
went from 25 percent to 27 percent in 2000, while Unix fell from 17% in
1999 to 14 percent last year. Novell's NetWare also dropped last year, to
17 percent from 19 percent in 1999. Overall, server OS sales went up by
13 percent to 6.1 million systems. Notably, while Linux held down 27
percent of the market, it accounted for less than one percent of the
total amount companies spent on server OSes last year since it can
generally be obtained for free. On the other side of the coin, Windows
continued to dominate desktop OS sales with 92 percent of that market - a
3% gain over 1999. Apple's Mac OS slipped down to 4% of desktop sales,
while Linux increased to slightly under two percent. -|
ALSO SEE:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4979275.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17273.html
http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,43022,00.asp
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