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Debunking Linux-Windows Market Share Myths
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.""
Yeah ! SUckers, go and give your ass to Bush Jr., you like it, bloody yanks !
I did vote, but my vote wasn't counted.
You bought a Ford? Did you forget that the board of directors don't care whether you live or die?
Judging by the explorer fiasco, i'd give it about 6 months before your car rolls and burns. make sure you wear a seat belt!
My XP box, is sitting at my house right now, happily encoding a divx movie for me, it has been on for 198 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes. I come home, play games like battlefield 1942 on it, run all my office software to prepare my presentations for work the next day, update my web server with it, write a little java, play divx movies to my big screen tv and I do all of this almost every single day, and haven't had a single crash yet. This is because I installed the OS properly, onto a stable hardware configuration and then went out and downloaded the apropriate patches, my web server is a linux box running apache, it has been up for 92 days, it goes down about every 3 months. It is running Redhat 7.3, so my problem is that my XP box, seems to be extremely stable, and I never have any problems. I would love to see some good runtime tests done for stability in Linux and XP, set up both boxes using gurus from microsoft and linux, and then run identical programs, whatever is the industry standard in a few fields, and see which one locks up first.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
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.
Acutally most end users want a computer that they can use to write documents, surf the web and play games
And linux sucks at writing documents, surfing the web, and all the games are lame.