Rant

In this case, I asked Circle K and 7-11 :) Since I could not find
a real authoritive source in 15 minutes, I could not include the
reference, however, google and "linux market share red hat caldera suse"
will reveal the general flavor.

George


"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 09. Oct, 2001 schwätzte George Toft so:
>

> > I looked this up before I posted, and these were the numbers from
> > several web sites.  I thought RH had more market share than that,
>           ^^^^^^^^^

>
> > so my perception was off.
>
> Number of web sites doesn't indicate number of installations. Kinda like
> taking a survey of Circle Ks to find out what cars are on the road :).
>
> Caldera claimed to have tons of desktop installs in corps. Don't know if
> they really ever did have that much, but remember articles saying they did (
> not that I trust zdnet and so forth to actually check facts ). They almost
> certainly don't have them now. Then again, if all those sco boxes are
> becoming caldera boxen, maybe they do.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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