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The Linux distillery Linux market share growing, growing, growing
The Linux distillery Linux market share growing, growing, growing | Linux market share growing, growing, growing |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Monday, 01 June 2009 | |
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Page 3 of 3 According to W3Schools.com Linux market share isn't merely 2%. They reported a 4% Linux market share in that same month, April 2009.Featured Whitepaper
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Some wags might argue that W3Schools would naturally have a lower record of Microsoft-based users because the site is all about teaching good standards-compliant web-site development and design! Of course, the truth is there is plenty at W3Schools for Microsoft users, including ASP and ASP.NET tutorials with SQL Server and ADO code. To celebrate Microsoft’s new Bing search engine I asked it to tell me the Linux market share. Amongst the pages of stock market info – not to mention the recommended related search term “Windows market share” – there was this interesting tidbit from 2003 where Siemens Business System declared Linux would have 20% desktop market share within enterprises by 2008. Ok, that didn’t happen. On the desktop, anyway. One final figure for you is Netcraft’s survey showing 45.95% of web servers in April 2009 ran Apache. It’s the leading web server platform in the world, and let me ask you this: which operating system comes with Apache out of the box? It’s not the year of the Linux desktop, or maybe – depending on who you believe – it has already been. Make no mistake, Linux is there all around us powering the devices we use daily. While the final frontier – the desktop – has been perceived as a Windows stronghold the figures do show Linux penetration is creeping steadily up and up. |
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