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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Posted Sep 26, 2008 11:33 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786)Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)
Another fun thing is, they ommited MacOS X, which already has an order of magnitude bigger market share on desktops than Linux has - and it's growing, while Linux' popularity on desktops does not.
When we sum things up - no growth on desktops, decline in market share on smartphones, IBM no longer trying to migrate it's customers to Linux from their proprietary operating systems - it may be possible that the future will be Microsoft and Apple.
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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 26, 2008 13:01 UTC (Fri) by landman (subscriber, #2901) [Link]
FWIW: on my blog, with a small 3000 visits per day, we get 65% windows flavors, 25% linux, 6% MacOSX.
I know that there are lots of MacOSX users. They just don't seem to be hitting my blog.
I have spoken with others in different spaces, and they report relatively similar statistics, though some times the windows and linux switch places.
For a desktop presence that is "so obviously larger" than Linux, it appears that (from the several months of data we have gathered) that Linux is being used as a desktop OS by more than 4x the number of MacOSX users.
Looking at web-logs should be simple, and a relatively accurate gauge on who is using what to browse the desktop. Sure, some might argue that its just a bunch of ninnies sitting in data centers on their servers running X and firefox ... But that would be pretty weak reasoning. What's more interesting to me is that the Linux browser user base appears to be more than 1/3 of the windows browser user base. Obviously qualified as "from hits on my blog". But this is really the only objective measure we have of any OS penetration on desktops.
To keep the context, yes we see Solaris. 0.4% of views. 0.1% is iphone.
Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 26, 2008 17:24 UTC (Fri) by jonquark (guest, #45554) [Link] With respect, I don't think we should judge desktop usage share based on the usage of your blog. (Given that you have an account here your readership is likely to be somewhat biased) Stats from a wider range of sites show linux at 0.5%-2% with OSX between 3% and 7%
Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 26, 2008 19:44 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
> When we sum things up - no growth on desktops, decline in market share
on smartphones, IBM no longer trying to migrate it's customers to Linux from their proprietary operating systems
Well, Linux share on all kinds of embedded devices (digi-TVs, NAS etc) and
> - it may be possible that the future will be Microsoft and Apple.
Future of what?
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