From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 10 18:57:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D5814CC8 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19208; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909110156.SAA19208@implode.root.com> To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal: Only Linux market share growing In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:43:55 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990910194049.0471f140@localhost> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:56:31 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Today's Wall Street Journal featured an article on BSD UNIX (in which >Jordan Hubbard was quoted, incidentally). According to the author, > >"...one recent survey showed that BSD [all versions] accounted for nearly >15% of all >server machines connected to the Internet. Linux leads the pack with 31%, >and is the only major operating system making any gains. Windows had 24%." > >Further confirmation that the BSDs, even all together, are not gaining >market share. It's not further confirmation of anything unless they did an indepedant study (which I'm quite sure they didn't). In other words, same re-hashed bogus stats that they gleaned out of a well known and out of date study. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message