Linux Gets Boost From New Stats, Former MSFT Employee
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2009-11-11
For quite a while, different reports and analysts have portrayed Linux as some sort of puny also-ran. Last week, a little info came out that seems to put Linux in Conan the Barbarian's shoes (and equip it with his sword), instead.
Here's encouraging news that takes us part of the way towards that visual: Eric Lai reported that Linux's share of a new-ish market could be rather large. He wrote, "The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year."
Other estimates have only given Linux a market share of perhaps 4 percent, which works out to a much-less-impressive 1.4 million netbooks.
Then there's the opinion of someone who worked at Microsoft for 11 years to consider. Preston Gralla reported that Keith Curtis, who used to do research for the tech giant, recently said, "I do believe that proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed." Curtis also added, "I think we could all be running Microsoft Linux."
So perhaps Linux is in much better shape than most people expected. At the least, it has some loyal and interesting supporters, and that's probably worth noting, too.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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