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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 03:02:04 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>>>> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines 
>>>>>> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact 
>>>>>> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking 
>>>>>> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive 
>>>>>> advantage.  Just a reality check...
>>>>> They do?
>>>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%. 
>>>> Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared 
>>>> to the overall 3.8% though.
>>> ----
>>> those numbers just don't look right. I refuse to believe that Win98 is
>>> and has been under 1% and Vista is so small.
>> Vista has not been well accepted at the enterprise level.  Something 
>> about changing driver interfaces, perhaps...  Microsoft has been forced 
>> to extend their support for XP and Dell continues to offer it.
>>
>>> As for Macintosh sales being 8%, I haven't seen any such report...that
>>> would be a significant increase.
>> It is significant. They are up 34% this quarter from a year ago with the 
>> PC market only growing at about 15%
>> http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9801997-37.html
>> And with Leopard they are officially Posix compliant and UNIX 03 
>> registered.  And they have dtrace.
> ----
> 34% increase in Apple bluster. Article was about iPhones/iPods

Quote:
  "Mac shipments were up 34 percent compared to last year"
> 
> Nothing there suggested any Apple percentage of total desktop sales

Quote:
  "It's also clear that Apple is gaining share on the rest of the PC 
industry. Last week IDC and Gartner had the worldwide PC market growing 
at around 15 percent, while Mac shipments are growing more than twice as 
fast. Apple sold 2.1 million Macs during the quarter, a company record 
and 400,000 units better than its previous best"

> I wonder how much device driver breakage there is with Leopard. ;-)

I haven't heard of any so far.  And keep in mind that the same thing 
runs on both PPC and intel processors, unlike anything else.

> In
> fact, I have not considered any Apple OSX to be what I would call a
> stable environment, I actually refer to it as permanent beta.

I haven't had anything break in several years (longer if you count a g3 
powermac at work).  And I'm good at breaking things.

> Not to mention the Apple Tax so you can pay for an OS when you already
> have an OS.

Can't argue with that, but the family pack at $199 for 5 licenses isn't 
that bad and a reasonable tradeoff for things that "just work". How much 
is it for one RHEL these days?  Plus it is worth something to be able to 
legally play dvd's and mp3s.

> Finally, I got my mailing from Tidbits and it seems that all is
> definitely not rosy with Leopard

I haven't updated yet but so far I haven't heard of any showstoppers. 
zfs didn't make it in though, which is a little disappointing.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com




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