Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:08:47 -0700 From: Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: *BSD is dying Message-ID: <200307101908.47976.andrewr@uidaho.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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I can assure you that this clown posts exactly this post to /. on a regular basis ... except that half the time, it's BSD that's dying, and the other half it's Windows Server, and the other half (ahem) it's Linux ... Andrew > > >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70502&cid=6404771 > > > > > >It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying > > > > > >Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when > > >recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 > > >percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft > > >survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this > > >news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing > > >in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last > > >[samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. > > > > > >You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's > > >future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In > > >fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. > > >Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, > > >*BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of > > >blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of > > >its core developers. > > > > > >Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. > > > > > >OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How > > >many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus > > >NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there > > >are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about > > >half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users > > >of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD > > >market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. > > >This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. > > > > > >Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD > > >went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another > > >troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet > > >another charnel house. > > > > > >All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. > > >*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If > > >*BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD > > >continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this > > >point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead. > > > > > >Fact: *BSD is dead > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : andrewr@uidaho.edu PO Box 441133 W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion.
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