Howdy all!
I was recently going through some back-issues of magazines in an attempt
to get "caught-up" when I ran across a little table that got me thinking.
>From Lan Times' June 23, 1997 Volume 14, Issue 13:
"According to International Data Corp. (IDC) shipments of Windows NT Server
licenses surpassed Unix OSes for the first time in 1996."
The table shows a total of 602,000 licenses for Unix, 725,000 for NT Server,
and 1 million for NetWare.
Now, I've heard/seen/read that there are about 6 million systems running
Linux worldwide - I'd assume that most of these have been installed in
the past two years...
This leads me to wonder if Linux has "sold" (for lack of a better word)
more copies in 1996 than any of those listed above? If half of those 6 million
systems were installed in 1996, then Linux out sold not only all other
Unix OSes, NT Server and NetWare, but all of those combined!!
Also, do we have any specifics on the number of systems currently running
Debian? If so are those numbers broken down by year? Is there a way that
this sort of tracking could be automated within Debian's installation
routines? We need to blow our own horn if we can generate reliable numbers
that come anywhere near those listed in the article!!
While I don't put too much stake in any numbers I read in the trades, others
do. Recently, a database company out of Bohemia, New York ported their
server and development environment to Linux (Caldera) because a few of us
convinced them that the Linux market was as strong as it is. It only took
a few months once they learned that literally millions of systems are out
there working.
Curious.
Chuck
PS My wife and I currently have 4 Intel systems running Debian, 1 DEC Alpha
running RedHat and three Etherminals (X terminals running Linux from
EEPROM/NVRAM) in our two businesses. With more Etherminals on the way...
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