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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:56:31 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wall Street Journal: Only Linux market share growing 
Message-ID:  <199909110156.SAA19208@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:43:55 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990910194049.0471f140@localhost> 

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>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bogus stats that they gleaned out of a well known and out of date study.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
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