Google is your friend:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/position

US Retail Market
January - December 2001
1. Redhat: 39,95%
2. Mandrake:  33,08%
3. Suse:  23,02%
4. Corel:  2,33%
5. Caldera: 1,12%
6. Turbolinux:  0,50%

Market share, by definition, means commercial.


However, looking more broadly, as someone else has done here:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1407&lang=en
on can see that Debian has a higher implementation rate than I had
previously been made aware of.


As far as SuSE being the leading distro in Europe, I could not find any
European statistics.  I remember reading it some literature they sent me
some time ago.  Oh well.


George


Derek Neighbors wrote:
> 
> > Go with what you know.  If you don't know either Debian os SuSE, I
> > would suggest SuSE - it has more market share (#1 distro in Europe),
> > and is a more mainstream distro.
> 
> Granted Im biased being a Debianite, but I would like to see the numbers
> that show SuSE has more market share.  It certainly is popular in Europe
> (I dont know if #1, #1 in Germany perhaps). More mainstream perhaps if
> mainstream == corporate.  I dispute still that is has more marketshare.
> 
> Numbers I looked at a while ago had 1-3 as
> 
> 1. Red Hat (by a lot)
> 2. Debian
> 3. Mandrake
> 
> (and 2-5 were all really close)
> 
> An interesting side note is its nearly impossible for real numbers,
> because on like traditional software a vendor cant tell you 'units
> shipped', the stores cant tell you 'units bought' and with mirrors and
> cheap CD-R 'units downloaded' is likely in accurate.  An example is I
> have 10 machines or so running Debian right now, but I borrowed a potato
> disk from a friend sometime ago and burned me a copy.
> 
> -Derek
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