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From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Subject: Re: SCO market share
In-Reply-To: v$icli@bcrvmpc2.vnet.ibm.com's message of Wed, 8 Dec 1993 14: 30:55 GMT
Message-ID: <WAYNE.93Dec8164902@backbone.uucp>
Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt)
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References: <1993Dec03.172422.1339@sco.com> <1993Dec7.160306.14988@rwwa.COM>
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 22:49:02 GMT
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In article <CHq0BJ.FK5@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> v$icli@bcrvmpc2.vnet.ibm.com (Charlie Li) writes:
> 
> In <hastyCHp81t.HGF@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
> >Also, I am very interested on any Linux or 386bsd figures that they
> >may have.
> 
> I'd like to hear the statistics of this too.  But I guess these are not
> considered as in the Unix-for-Intel *MAARKET* since Linux and 386bsd are
> *FREE*.  :-)


You can also *pay* for Linux (and *BSD), if you want to.  There are
quite a few companies selling this stuff on floppies, tape and CD-ROM.

One of them, Yggdrasil is claiming that they have shipped ~8,000
Linux CD's within the last 3 months or so.  Surveys have shown that
~30-40% of all Linux sites are at work and/or schools.  The reliability
of these surveys may be in question, but the indications are that
Linux and *BSD are not just being used in small time outfits and
homes.  There are significant businesses doing significant work with
these "free" versions of Unix.

I am curious how significant the market share is.  Data collected a
year a go probably won't show much penetration by these systems, but
things are growing quickly, especially the last 3-6 months or so.


> How about Linux and 386bsd, do they come with C Compiler and TCP/IP/NFS?

Yes.  Both Linux and *BSD use gcc.  *BSD has more stable networking,
but lots of people are using Linux's and the more recent versions are
getting close to *BSD's quality.  It should be noted that TCP/IP was
*developed* on BSD, so everyone else must compare thier version to
BSD's.  Yellow pages seems to be weak on both Linux and *BSD, or so I
have been told..



-wayne