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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Dell and KDE market share
From:       "Wade Olson" <wade () corefunction ! com>
Date:       2006-03-09 17:46:08
Message-ID: a42b7670603090946h7cd43769tc299f6c688235457 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 3/9/06, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:16, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> > Michael Dell explains in
> > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3822185143.html
> > that he estimates Desktop Linux to be 1.5 % of the market share.
> 
> which aspect of the market, though?
> 
> annual deployment?
> market penetration?
> dollar sales figures?
> boxed units shipped?
> etc ..
> 
Oh, the age old metrics problem with tracking desktop numbers for all
distros.  Without accurate statstics, it's going to be impossible to
declare this year the Year of the Linux Desktop.

> *sigh*
> 
> well, at least we probably have the minimum bar here. it's doubtful it's at
> less than 1.5% of the market; but depending on the metric selected above,
> it's probably more IMHO.
> 
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