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I guess they know they have a competitor. Which doesn't allow their OS to be installed on any hardware without a bitten apple on it...
by herval 17y ago
I guess they know they have a competitor. Which doesn't allow their OS to be installed on any hardware without a bitten apple on it...
- Retric 17y agoDesktop Linux is still a competitor that you can instill on windows HW.
- herval 17y agoGiven the market share, I'd say Linux is as much as a competitor as OS/2, right now...
- herval 17y agolooks like Linux fanboys hate to know the truth - that all desktop Linux distros combine eat up less than 4% of the market! Or am I missing something here? Please enlighten me before downvoting, thanks!
- Retric 17y agoIn most open markets 4% is a fairly large market share. Depending on where you define the edges of PC market, windows has a 70 - 90% of the market share, but it's far from the only game in town. Windows market share is also steady shrinking and has been for several years. However, OS/2 is such a tiny fraction that it's hard to estimate accurately. So comparing Linux to OS/2 is vary trollish behavior. PS: Windows market share is being consumed both at the high and low end. As an investor that's a major reason to become concerned and has nothing to do with being a fain boy. Companies that simply ignore their competition tend to be eaten over time. Feel free to look at other sectors of the computer market over time to see how fast this transition can happen.
- parenthesis 17y agoAnd, of course, the PC market is so enormous, that 4% means millions of machines.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoAnother thing we often forget to consider is that for Linux to remain as powerful as it is, it really can't be popular. Before most people would start using it, it needs to be a lot simpler and a lot stabler. That's a hard thing to achieve without sacrificing some of the freedom it currently gives an experienced user.