20% desktop market share by mid-2006
Posted Aug 21, 2003 17:37 UTC (Thu) by
hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)
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20% desktop market share by mid-2006 by Tar
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Global IT firm predicts Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008 (NewsForge)
The Google Zeitgeist gives a good approximation for active installed base (this is why Windows 98 is so large). I think Siemens is trying to say that Linux will have 20% of new OS shipments, and 5% is not entirely unreasonable now -- though if it is accurate, then the Zeitgeist should be rolling over any day now...
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