[lug] SuSE more popular than RedHat?

[John Starkey]

My Caldera stock is the only one that's made me any money since Nov, out of Sun, Redhat and
Caldera. :{ But it's a penny stock. Like Redhat is becoming.

Deva Samartha wrote:

> Hello,
>
> no flamebait, just info.
> I was really surprised to find this:
>
>                          SuSE    48.3%
>                          RedHat 28.9%
>                          Macmillan 20.8%
>                          Caldera 0.5%
>                          Corel   1.2%
>                          Turbo   0.2%
>                          Source: PCData report from March, 3rd 2001
>
> there:
>
> http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/Sales_Catapult_SuSE_Linux_into_New_Levels.html
>
> and tried to find a reference to verify the numbers here:
>
> http://www.pcdata.com but unable to find anything in reference to operating
> systems. Apparently the Co. tracks retail sales figures.
>
> It looks like they are talking about current sales numbers rather installed
> base which would be a more relevant number. Possibly Netcraft would be a
> source to determine at least the share of Linux distributions as web servers?
>
> Does anyone have access to those number?
>
> Of cause, when a new distribution comes out, the sales of that particular
> product exceed any older main distribution's sales, at least temporarily, I
> would think.
>
> The article is somewhat unclear. They are talking about "market share" - of
> what?
>
> Not that I wish SuSE anything bad but to have a market share of almost 50 %
> in USA would really be a surprise.
>
> Maybe Xenia von Wedel could comment on the published numbers?
>
> Samartha
>
>
>
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