Adi Stav wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But what's a user? Someone who runs programs through a VT (e.g. bank
> clerks)? A web client or PPP client?
>
> I remember a statistic saying Linux runs 3 out of 10 of the world's
> busiest web sites (and I may very well be very off here).
Next time, please don't quote *parts* of my message.
I also wrote that even in the general-purpose servers field, where the
presence of Linux is weaker than in the web servers, it already reached
25%.
I wrote numbers which are very positive for Linux. Why should you quote
a reservation and argue with it?
In addition, I emphasized that some of the UNIX users even don't know
they use UNIX, not to credit UNIX, but to credit Linux, where almost
everybody (of course excluding PPP clients, who are not counted, because
they run their own OS) knows what OS he runs.
--
Eli Marmor
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