Linux Marketshare is Rising

OMG! Ubuntu! ^ | January 4th | Joey Sneddon

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

What would really help give a better overview of any general trend in Linux usage is an average market share percentage. So I’ve done just that, taking the average reach for each month (based on stats from all the companies) and plotted it below.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Techping

[JRandomFreeper]

Is that server or desktop?

/johnny

[spintreebob]

Desktop or server? and more questions.
The market has segments:
mobile device OS; personal computer os; business OS; education OS; government OS.
Isn’t IOS making the size of the market so much bigger that the share held by others is irrelevant?

Then there’s the question of what is actually used.
zOS still processes a major share of real business. I just paid a credit card bill by mail. That payment and millions of others by almost every bank and insurance company and Fortune 500 are processed by zOS.

A computer that is just a paper weight 23 hours a day cannot be compared to one that is up 24/7/366.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’m a Linux fanboy, but making a big deal about hundredths of a percentage point increase seems sort of... desperate.

[marktwain]

This is the way I want to see it. A nice, slow, steady, rise. That way I get the advantages of well supported software that is free, and have very little to worry about from viruses and malware.

[mamelukesabre]

Its about a 25% increase. That’s not small.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

25% of 1% is 0.25%.

That's noise.

No offense. Honest.

[mamelukesabre]

Its not noise if it continues for another year.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

I've gotten to the point that I don't really care about market share. It's not an indicator of quality, and what other people use or don't use don't use doesn't really concern me.

I use linux because

• It's freely available
• I get security updates that I know are not pushing out spyware
• Plenty of applications available
• It integrates seamlessly with my work environment
• It provides the desktop environment that allows me to be more productive
• No vendor lockin
• It provides choice in desktop appearance, usage, and performance.
• It supports more hardware

Not everyone has the same needs I do. That's fine. Use what works. However, if everything is equal, I'd still prefer linux.

[zeugma]

I’m a Linux fanboy, but making a big deal about hundredths of a percentage point increase seems sort of... desperate.

It does. I'm long since over the whole market share thing. If other folks want to use virus-prone and unreliable crap, I'm fine with that. I'm just glad the development environment is still robust.

I just need to learn not to update until after there is a patch for VMware Workstation, so it doesn't break after a kernel upgrade. Currently, I'm dead in the water on Workstation 7.1.5 with kernel 3.2.2, as everything I could find on google last night that I thought would help went to dead links. Apparently helohost.org is off the air, and that's were a bunch of the links to patching went to.

I like VMWare a lot, but it is the only program that gives me serious headaches. If I didn't already have so much invested in it, I'd have abandoned it long ago.

[Tribune7]

It’s nice for people to be told that Linux is still hanging around.

[techworker]

I am in the process of converting our enterprise class application from Windows/SQL to Linux/Oracle. So far I am pretty happy, I haven’t been in a *nix environment in about 8 years.

This is a self-contained Java app server that technically could be installed with Weblogic but we’ve chosen to use it standalone (weblogic is on Windows, plus I need control of our server, and I lose that somewhat if we are just a weblogic app.)

[TheOldLady]

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