Size of Linux v Mac OS X user base

From: 19971079 (rmaloney_at_murdoch.edu.au)
Date: 06/08/05 

Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:01:54 +0800

In a thread on this group recently there was a comment that a supplier
would not provide a printer driver for Linux because the Linux market
was too small. However, most suppliers of devices for use with Windoz
supply software on the accompanying CD for Mac OS X as well. Hence the
question: What is the size of the user base of Linux as opposed to Mac
OS X? I know that Linux has the largest share of the Internet server
market, and that possibly represents 100,000 (guessing) machines world
wide. Has anybody got ideas about the competition between these two in
the whole 'market'?

Ross

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