On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >>>> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines > >>>> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact > >>>> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking > >>>> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive > >>>> advantage. Just a reality check... > >>> They do? > >> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%. > >> Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared > >> to the overall 3.8% though. > > ---- > > those numbers just don't look right. I refuse to believe that Win98 is > > and has been under 1% and Vista is so small. > > Vista has not been well accepted at the enterprise level. Something > about changing driver interfaces, perhaps... Microsoft has been forced > to extend their support for XP and Dell continues to offer it. > > > As for Macintosh sales being 8%, I haven't seen any such report...that > > would be a significant increase. > > It is significant. They are up 34% this quarter from a year ago with the > PC market only growing at about 15% > http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9801997-37.html > And with Leopard they are officially Posix compliant and UNIX 03 > registered. And they have dtrace. ---- 34% increase in Apple bluster. Article was about iPhones/iPods Nothing there suggested any Apple percentage of total desktop sales I wonder how much device driver breakage there is with Leopard. ;-) In fact, I have not considered any Apple OSX to be what I would call a stable environment, I actually refer to it as permanent beta. Not to mention the Apple Tax so you can pay for an OS when you already have an OS. Finally, I got my mailing from Tidbits and it seems that all is definitely not rosy with Leopard Craig
