Android will soon trail only Symbian, says IDC
Android will trail only Symbian in mobile phone market share by 2013, according to IDC. Android phones such as the pictured Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, which is now heading for NTT DoCoMo, will grow...
View ArticleStudy: > 21% of German PCs run OpenOffice
According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT service provider, the open source OpenOffice suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice or IBM's Lotus Symphony, are installed on more than 21% of German PCs.
View ArticleOpenOffice.org by the Numbers
What would you say if you heard that OpenOffice.org had an impressive 22% share of the market? It does, in Poland and the Czech Republic. ... The method used was to examine fonts installed on systems...
View ArticleHas the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?
New figures from webmasterpro.de show surprisingly high market share for OpenOffice.org around the world - peaking at 22% in Poland and Germany. Has the rise of OpenOffice.org to become a true rival to...
View ArticleGNU/Linux a King of Servers, But Microsoft Boosters Disagree
Using flawed and partly Microsoft-funded numbers, the advocates of proprietary software beg to suggest that GNU/Linux is declining (which it's not)
View ArticleOperating Systems and Market Share Statistics
Did you know that 55% of statistics are made up on the spot? (or maybe it was 68% I don't recall) If you have ever taken a statistics class you know that data is everything, but it's not just about the...
View ArticleWhy there is a Market for Linux Games
Alright - enough speculation and assumptions, lets look at some cold hard numbers. Two recent games that had successful Linux ports would be 2DBoys World of Goo and Frictional Games enumbra Series....
View ArticleFirefox, Chrome, Safari have finally killed Internet Explorer
The hegemony that Internet Explorer once upon a time had is... over. Right now, other browsers are fighting amongst each other, and it's all about how much of IE's share they are getting. The war is...
View ArticleLinux makes gains as Windows and Mac OS slip
Data by web metrics firm Net Applications shows that while both Windows and Mac OS lost usage share in May, Linux made a small gain.
View ArticleWhy the Free Software/Open Source Community Does Not Love Apple and is...
In terms of market share, Free software beats Apple (especially thanks to poorer regions where Microsoft too is struggling to win)
View ArticleFirefox To Make History, About To Surpass IE in Europe
August has arrived. Time for a browser market share update. There is quite a bit of news this month, which, depending on your view, can be modified in virtually any direction you prefer. Microsoft...
View ArticleLinux Market Share
In the course of a normal work day I take several little breaks to check the news. On my list of news sites are Slashdot, Linux Journal, and Linux Today. Frequently I see something that gives me an...
View ArticleDebunking the 1% Myth
It seems like almost every day someone in the tech press or someone commenting in a technical forum will claim that Linux adoption on the desktop (including laptops) is insignificant. The number that...
View ArticleGNU/Linux Desktop Market Share in the United States Not the Global Share
A quick response to operating system surveys which are predominantly US-oriented
View ArticleWhy You Should Only Buy Linux Pre-Installed on your Systems
Many Linux users are geeks, and vice versa, and geeks can build their own systems or at least install an OS, so why should we buy systems with Linux pre-installed? Why is it so important if the OS is...
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