Market per centage

Market per centage

Posted Aug 29, 2002 21:19 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Red Hat as the "next Redmond" by dbhost
Parent article: Red Hat as the "next Redmond"

>Funny thing. Most of the Linux users I personally know use ...

>Not a Red Hat user in the bunch. I know they have a lot of really sweet
>deals with big computer vendors and with large companies. But I wonder
>what percentage of the market Red Hat really owns

The market is measured in dollars, not persons, and I suspect your friends are virtually invisible to people selling products that interoperate with Linux. I bet the Red Hat-based share of the market for Linux-compatible stuff is comparable to the Microsoft-based share of the market for computer-compatible stuff.

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