Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered SlackWare community when last month IDC confirmed that SlackWare accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that SlackWare has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SlackWare is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SlackWare's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SlackWare faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SlackWare because SlackWare is dying. Things are looking very bad for SlackWare. As many of us are already aware, SlackWare continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. SlackWare is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SlackWare leader David Cantrell states that there are 7000 users of SlackWare. How many users of SlackWare are there? Let's see. The number of SlackWare versus SlackWare posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SlackWare users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SlackWare posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put SlackWare at about 80 percent of the SlackWare market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SlackWare users. This is consistent with the number of SlackWare Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, SlackWare went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SlackWare has steadily declined in market share. SlackWare is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SlackWare is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. SlackWare continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SlackWare is dead.
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SlackWare is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered SlackWare community when last month IDC confirmed that SlackWare accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that SlackWare has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SlackWare is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SlackWare's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SlackWare faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SlackWare because SlackWare is dying. Things are looking very bad for SlackWare. As many of us are already aware, SlackWare continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. SlackWare is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SlackWare leader David Cantrell states that there are 7000 users of SlackWare. How many users of SlackWare are there? Let's see. The number of SlackWare versus SlackWare posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SlackWare users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SlackWare posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put SlackWare at about 80 percent of the SlackWare market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SlackWare users. This is consistent with the number of SlackWare Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, SlackWare went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SlackWare has steadily declined in market share. SlackWare is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SlackWare is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. SlackWare continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SlackWare is dead.