Well, I didn't want to interfere in this academic interesting thread,
but there is "official statistics" which may help the discussion (as
far as IDC may be considered "official"):
This statistics says that by end of 1999, 62.5% of the UNIX *servers*
were Linux (or in IDC words: 25% of the wordl's servers were Linuxes,
while 15% were UNIXes).
Now to my "parshanut":
1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX
has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux
box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more
non-Linux users than Linux users ("non-Linux" in my words, means
only other UNIXes, including Solaris/HP-UX/DG-UX/AIX/SCO/Irix/etc.,
but excluding NT/OS2/mainframe/VMS/Novell/etc.). On the other hand,
many UNIX users even don't know that they use UNIX.
2. The statistics didn't count desktops, where the difference between
Linux and UNIX is even bigger. I guess, that by number of *boxes*,
including desktops but ignoring users, there are at least 3 Linuxes
per each non-Linux UNIX (!)
3. The statistics also details "market", in terms of money and costs,
of course. Here, UNIX (non-Linux) leads in a big difference over
everybody else, including Microsoft, and Linux has (IIRC) some
prumils only, or in other words - doesn't exist.
Note: The statistics didn't count *BSD at all. Ze Ma Yesh...
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Eli Marmor
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