Re: Off-Topic : Linux and Microsoft
Olá,
apesar desse assunto ser offtopic, é muito interessante: veja no site
Newsforge, a matéria "90% Windows, 5% Mac, 5% Linux? Not true!"
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/1846240
Eles explicam como esses números foram calculados: foi usado como
critério o fato do S.O. vir ou não instalado de fábrica. Como muito
poucas empresas pré-instalam GNU/Linux, essa conta saiu assim baixa.
Mau negócio para o Gartner Group, que até aqui era considerado
confiável e que, em uma pesquisa financiada, entre outros pela
Microsoft, deu essa informação errônea.
No slashdot, há a chamada "Gartner Claims Less Linux Than IDC" que
compara estudos do Gartner, usando a metodologia (!) acima, com aqueles
do IDC, com outra metodologia, em
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2222207&mode=thread
Também há uma discussão sobre o tema, com observações nem sempre
cordatas ou gentis. :)
[]s, Hilton
--- Nitrogen <coldwater@uol.com.br> wrote:
> Lista,
>
> Dêem uma olhada nesta notícia que achein o site na mandrake. Pode-se
> notar
> que agora somos tratados pela microsoft como 'ninguém' (rs).
>
> Abraços,
> Leonardo Custodio
> ________________________________________
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> ------------- Attach -------------
> No one's using Linux, claims Microsoft
> By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
> Posted: 13/06/2001 at 11:21 GMT
>
>
> Gartner Dataquest has pegged the proportion of Linux servers shipped
> in the
> United States at 8.6 per cent.
>
> Gartner analyst Jeffery Hewitt claims that this figure - which
> includes
> 'white box' shipments, but excludes server appliances such as Sun's
> Cobalt
> range - is dramatically lower than the 20 per cent plus cited by arch
> rivals
> IDC. Of that 8.6 per cent, eight per cent is attributed to Red Hat
> and 0.6
> per cent to other distros.
>
> The survey is dated May 30, but was made public yesterday.
>
> We don't usually hear about analyst surveys from vendors in advance
> of
> publication. But yesterday a note dropped in from Microsoft's PR
> company,
> Waggener Edstrom.
>
> "8.6 per cent is... certainly in line with what we are hearing from
> our
> customers and partners," wrote a friendly Wagg-Ed flak.
>
> Now there's some dispute over what a 'shipment' actually involves, as
> NewsForge's Rob 'roblimo' Miller points out in this analysis. And he
> has a
> very good point: for example, Gartner pegs Linux shipments in the
> supercomputer space as 'zero' this year. In fact Linux is well
> established
> on commodity parallel clusters at many scientific sites. Many of
> these were
> assembled in-house, so a shipment clearly doesn't correlate to a
> working
> installation.
>
> However, Microsoft's pre-emptive strike may be tactical. Hewitt
> actually
> predicts that volume shipments of Linux - even using Gartner's
> contested
> definition of 'shipment' and 'server' - will mushroom in the next
> four
> years.
>
> Total worldwide Linux deployment will quadruple from 2.4 million to
> 9.1
> million, predicts Gartner, with explosive growth in the supercomputer
> area:
> up from that dubious 'zero' this year to over 5000 by 2005. In the
> $25,000
> to $100,000 range - the low-end company workhorse - Linux shipments
> will
> increase ninefold. In the sub-$5000 space, Linux will grow over six
> fold.
>
> So this may be a case of the Beast getting its retaliation in first.
> ®
>
>
>
>
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