What Are The Linux Usage Statistics?The Vista operating system should follow the XP trend, ascertaining about 40% in the beginning, through the decline of the Microsoft system. Linux usage statistics showed that IBM products are advertising the Linux that is pre-installed on the think pads, which makes a profit of around 35 percent in the Linux market. Similarly, the Novell gains around 50 percent of the Linux market. Microsoft has been pulled into the place by IBM, Apple and Novell to overcome the fall in their share prices since nearly, 20% of the people has been jumped to IBM, Redhat and so on, from Microsoft. The Linux integration made by IBM were seen in the great sales by the corporate customers and it gained another 10 percent to 15 percent for Linux. Fortunately, Apple also increased their shares to 20%. A general Linux usage statistics states that, by this growth of the Linux market, it creates the expectation that, in future the world of personal computers would have an equal amount of Linux PCs, Macs and also Vista PCs. Nearly 45 to 50 individuals were being employed as small business owners in Windows Vista, then moving fully to Linux for 5 to 8 years. If Microsoft sets a track on the new Volume License Implementation on all of their upcoming products, then there will be nearly 50% of mass shift from .Net to Linux and Java. Based on this, the people will use the other Microsoft PC's to communicate with other people who are not shifted to Linux. Another Linux usage Statistics reveals that, even if the Linux conversion rate stays high, the trend remains to be unaltered, like Linux with original data is slightly differ from Linux2 which is with the new projections. This is mainly because there is 0.5 percentage of loss in Vista and an increase of 0.1 percent every month. This will automatically affect the conversion rate of Linux. Nearly 2.8 percent of the people were working with the Vista even this was below the original prediction. So, after 2 years, this will lead to an incremental loss of the Linux users. Anyhow, according to the Linux Usage Statistics, Linux grows to around 7.18 percent during the same date as the original prediction of 4.38 percentage. According to the Linux market survey and Linux usage statistics, for about 24 percent of the respondents who had planned to use the Linux distribution, nearly 21 percent with Mandrake, 12 percent and 10 percent of the respondents were earning with Red hat and SuSe respectively and around 8 percent to 9 percent of the respondents are with Windows. During 2004, the clients extracted the Linux usage statistics based on Linux market surveys which revealed that there was a sudden growth from 10 percent to 34 percent, with Debian that was still in the first position. The Mandrake, suddenly dipped to 19 percent and was in the second place. Recently, a market survey data reveals the Yoper, a recent arrival on the desktop Linux Scene. |