A survey [1] was conducted by KACE in California. I heard about it during the Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth (aka. sabdfl) this morning. Here's a link to the full Q&A log and the relevant excerpt about the study.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekJaunty/AskMark (12:41:27 PM) jcastro: <popey> QUESTION: Recent surveys indicate that of those switching from XP but _not_ to Windows 7, 27% would go to OSX and 25% would go to Ubuntu, with Red Hat, Suse, and others below. What do we need to do to overtake OSX? sabdfl: 2%? sabdfl: ;-) sabdfl: i thought that was an AMAZING result, btw sabdfl: credit to the whole community for that sabdfl: mostly, i think we need to stand up and be proud sabdfl: encourage all of our family and friends to make the switch to free software and promise to stand by them throughout sabdfl: since WE are mostly the people who support them, anyhow :-) sabdfl: we do need to deliver classy, tight, useful software sabdfl: so bring the lessons of Web 2.0 to the desktop sabdfl: lean, mean, fast and easy to use sabdfl: and we will do well -- -- Grant Bowman <[email protected]> [1] http://www.kace.com/resources/Windows-Vista-Adoption-and-Alternatives-A-Survey-of-Technology-Professionals -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
