On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Craig White wrote:
>>>> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines
>>>> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in
fact
>>>> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking
>>>> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive
>>>> advantage. Just a reality check...
>>> They do?
>>
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%.
>> Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared
>> to the overall 3.8% though.
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> those numbers just don't look right. I refuse to believe that Win98 is
> and has been under 1% and Vista is so small.
Vista has not been well accepted at the enterprise level. Something
about changing driver interfaces, perhaps... Microsoft has been forced
to extend their support for XP and Dell continues to offer it.
> As for Macintosh sales being 8%, I haven't seen any such report...that
> would be a significant increase.
It is significant. They are up 34% this quarter from a year ago with the
PC market only growing at about 15%
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9801997-37.html
And with Leopard they are officially Posix compliant and UNIX 03
registered. And they have dtrace.
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34% increase in Apple bluster. Article was about iPhones/iPods
Nothing there suggested any Apple percentage of total desktop sales
I wonder how much device driver breakage there is with Leopard. ;-) In
fact, I have not considered any Apple OSX to be what I would call a
stable environment, I actually refer to it as permanent beta.
Not to mention the Apple Tax so you can pay for an OS when you already
have an OS.
Finally, I got my mailing from Tidbits and it seems that all is
definitely not rosy with Leopard
Craig