Number of installations is not also necessarily a good metric. Red Hat is a very large company with a lot of money and and a lot of employees working on upstre

Number of installations is not also necessarily a good metric. Red Hat is a very large company with a lot of money and and a lot of employees working on upstream Linux projects and driving their direction. There are not that many companies doing the same. Which is why they have a lot of influence over the direction of things.