Re: Linux Market share?

From: TokaMundo (TokaMundo_at_weedizgood.org)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:14:23 GMT

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:57:46 GMT, "billwg" <billw@twcf.rr.com> Gave
us:

>
>The money is what makes the market. Markets are measured in terms of the
>money spent to buy products that compete in the same market and market
>growth or decline is measured in terms of money increases or decreases over
>time.

  Yes, the current definition of the term market is for sold products.

> It has nothing to do with how many people use the products or how
>often they use them.

  Seems Bill thinks differently. He is not happy about the popularity
of the FREELY available OS product called Linux...

> It only depends on how much money they spend annually
>for the products.

  For the strictest analysis of the term, yes... however, for a
statistic of number of OSes on boxes, the stats are quite different.

>
>If a customer purchases a linux based PC to replace a Windows based PC, that
>is a loss of share for Microsoft. If the customer switches from Sun servers
>and terminals to some distributed linux based PC network, that is a growth
>of the desktop market as well as a share loss by Microsoft, but it is also
>an opportunity for Microsoft to compete for the business.

  Once a customer switches to Linux.... good luck.. Billy. When the
numbers come in at the end of the year, the IT department is happy,
and gets bonuses... No turning back then...

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