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On Friday 16 January 2009 15:10, Paul Sutton wrote: > Looking at the article a while back on the OU being challenged to use > OSS, It stated somewhere in that that Linux only has a 1% market share, > > this to me seems rather low, I just wondered if anyone had any real > upto date stats we can use when promoting OSS, as it really helps when > people try to say no one uses it, or similar to quote real stats on usage. > > Given the downloads for openoffice for all operating systems, there has > to be similar usage stats for other stuff, too, it just helps, and > would be useful if we get a venue to do presentations etc. ie. explain > OPen source / free software then give people some stats on usage. Its a tricky one to answer - I've 6 machines here with Linux on and one was paid for. I know of several machines with paid for Vista that now run XP or linux. That would come up in the stats as 1 linux, several vista. Linux may only have 1% market share but 99% of pc's may be running it and Vista may have 90% market share but only 1% of pc's trying to run it. Market share is meaningless to anyone but bean counters. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html