Debunking Linux-Windows Market Share Myths

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 17, 2003 @01:02AM from the trying-to-make-sense-of-the-numbers dept.

bc90021 writes "Nicholas Petreley has a great article over at LinuxWorld explaining why it seems that Windows has such a high market share when 40% of developers are focusing on Linux. From the summary: "There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how quickly Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share. Windows starts out with a false boost and maintains its illusory market share even as it gets replaced by Linux. In 2004, don't be surprised when Linux overtakes Windows to become the main focus for developers.""

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Linux Developers inefficient? by JDogBird · 2003-03-17 04:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Perhaps there are so many Linux developers because it takes several Linux develops to equal the productivity of a single Windows developer. This is likely given the disparity in development tool productivity between the two platforms.