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Interesting statistics
Red Hat slipped from 86 percent in 2003 to 72 percent from November 2003 to January 2005, while Novell gained from 21 percent to 33 percent over the same period.

In November 2003 Red Hat and SuSE/Novell had a commanding 86% + 21% = 107% of the sites that rely on Linux. Unfortunately their overall share declined to 72% + 33% = 105%. How disappointing happy

OK, I'm going to allow for the fact that perhaps there are some customers that have more than one version of Linux running but it is hard to imagine that a whole 7% of sites are running two versions of Linux before the multitude of other distributions are considered. What a maintenance nightmare. Does one person in an IT department fiddling with Linux constitute a usage or is there really an issue with companies not standardizing on one distribution for their organization.
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They need to dump the SUSE name and the uuuugly colors.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
Disagree  Linux User 147560 | 02/16/05
The SUSE brand does not work in the US .  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
What licensing baggage?  Michael Kelly | 02/16/05
For businesses, you can NOT write QT programs without a license.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
That's wrong  Michael Kelly | 02/16/05
licensing bagage of KDE/QT?  Richard Flude | 02/16/05
Well done?? Royalties for basic infrasturcture??  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
Why not?  Linux User 147560 | 02/16/05
The difference is, this is for Linux, and there are options: GNOME and GTK.  DonnieBoy | 02/17/05
Agree  Loverock Davidson | 02/16/05
You know that...  Michael Kelly | 02/16/05
Cool  Loverock Davidson | 02/16/05
Your linsux masters would be very disappointed in you dumb-as-rock..  Jeff Spicoli | 02/16/05
You can use KDE and GNOME on FreeBSD too  Michael Kelly | 02/16/05
No they wouldn't  Loverock Davidson | 02/16/05
I TOTALLY agree...  prime21 | 02/16/05
I like the Fedora name myself.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
What's in a name?  doe_z | 02/16/05
Crummy Name  nucrash | 02/16/05
What is so hard about  Linux User 147560 | 02/16/05
What Planet are you on?  htotten | 02/17/05
Re: They need to dump the SUSE name and the uuuugly colors.  MepisLINUXuser | 02/19/05
Please excuse typos...  MepisLINUXuser | 02/20/05
Imagine if all software packaged with Linux desktops had problems like QT.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/05
What the hell  Linux User 147560 | 02/16/05
Man, Qt is a LIBRARY, they should use the LGPL  DonnieBoy | 02/17/05
re:  Iain_Peters | 02/19/05
Interesting statistics  jayorke | 02/16/05
Who cares  FilledOut | 02/17/05

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