5% of all PCs in 2004 shipped with Linux In the U.S., Linux will ship on 0.8 percent of PCs this year, 80% of PCs sold with Linux will run pirated Windows...
New York Times quotes Gartner report on desktop operating systems. By the end of the year, Linux will be running on 1% of the desktop PC's worldwide, compared with 2.8% for Apple MacOS, and 96% for Microsoft Windows, according to Gartner.
According to IDC Server Consolidation Survey, 14% of companies surveyed said they were replacing their Windows servers, 18% were replacing their Unix servers, and some 42% were taking out Netware from their servers. The majority of the companies were actually migrating to a Windows-based server,
Half of the small firms interviewed for the report, and 47% of enterprises, told Forrester that they will not replace any of their Windows-based corporate desktops with systems running Linux. In contrast, Windows XP migrations are in full swing. Some 77% of enterprise users are upgrading, 37% on new PCs and existing hardware and 40% on new PCs only.
VDC survey of retail IT execs found Linux in barely 2% of the POS (point of sale) systems, compared with 43% for Windows, 19% for various proprietary/in-house customized operating systems, 17% for IBM (primarily AS/400), 9% for various Unix flavors and 10% that didn't answer.
Company   ; Shipments Share(%) Shipments Share(%) (%)
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Windows CE 1,375,866 48.1 1,037,874 41.2 32.6
Palm OS   ; 850,821 29.8 1,181,202 46.9 -28.0
Research In Motion 565,000 19.8 123,775 4.9 356.5
Linux   ; 24,500 0.9 48,550 1.9 -49.5
Others &nbs p; 42,620 1.5 125,745 5.0 -66.1
Total   ; 2,858,807 100.0 2,517,146 100.0 13.6
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