Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:12:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bsd dying according to os counter? Message-ID: <19990225141255.L52343@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <87g17v51fl.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>; from stephen farrell on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:19:42AM -0600 References: <87g17v51fl.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>
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On Wednesday, 24 February 1999 at 8:19:42 -0600, stephen farrell wrote: > > According to this counter, bsd is losing market share on the net > rapidly... > > http://leb.net/hzo/ioscount/ > > http://leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9901.txt > > can this be accurate? For those who can't be bothered to look, here's the table: Host OS recognized (grouped, sorted) 09/98 %recog 01/99 %recog +/-% ------------------------------------ ------- ------ ------- ------ ---- 1.( ) Linux 223441 27.6 287093 30.8 +3.2 2.( 4.) Solaris/SunOS 109579 13.5 178350 19.1 +5.6 3.( 2.) Windows 95/98/NT 190726 23.6 171829 18.4 -5.2 4.( 3.) BSD Family 170228 21.0 150961 16.2 -4.8 5.( ) IRIX 43987 5.4 52941 5.7 +0.3 6.( 7.) AIX 15132 1.9 17362 1.9 0.0 7.( 6.) Mac/Apple 15929 2.0 16170 1.7 -0.3 8.(10.) Reliant Unix/Sinix 4242 0.5 12848 1.4 +0.9 9.( 8.) HPUX 13530 1.7 10416 1.1 -0.6 10.( 9.) Digital Unix 4922 0.6 5016 0.5 -0.1 11.( ) SCO Unix 3268 0.4 3787 0.4 0.0 12.( ) Novel Netware 2726 0.3 3656 0.4 +0.1 ----------- ------ ---- ----- ----- ++checksums 797710 98.6 910429 97.6 According to this table, Microsoft NT is taking an even bigger hit, while Solaris has the largest gain. These jumps don't seem plausible. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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