Rant

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:50:50 -0700


"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 07. Oct, 2001 schwätzte George Toft so:
> 
> > I would look at it from a marketing perspective.  Each of the
> > distros you cited are backed by a company.  I believe Slack is
> 
> debian isn't backed by a company. Most commercial vendors won't acknowledge
> it either.
> 
> > supported only by Patrick V.  Also, look at the market share.
> > Red Hat has 55-60% market share, Caldera 10%, and all others
> 
> There's the impression that RH has that much. There was even back when
> Caldera supposedly had the most installed boxen.

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.

George