According to IDC, Linux server operating environment (SOE) revenues are forecast to account for 6.1% of the entire SOE market in China in 2005. IDC forecasts Linux SOE revenue in China will reach $19.9 mln in 2005 and grow to $117.6 mln by 2009, displaying a robust five-year (2005-2009) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64%. In China, government-led initiatives encouraging the adoption of open source software have spurred on intense competition between various factions of the community. According to IDC China, revenues for the locally-sold Linux SOE market in the first half of 2005 are estimated to approach $2.9 mln. The locally-sold market includes Linux SOEs acquired through local channels and OEMs as well as direct from Linux SOE vendors, but does not include Linux SOEs acquired through global OEMs.
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- 20% of mobile phones to run Linux by 2013
- Windows servers up 12.8% in Q4 2007, Linux up 8%
- Microsoft Windows servers grew 9.8% in Q4 2007
- Smart phone OS shares: Symbian - 67%, Microsoft - 13%, RIM - 10%
- Web server numbers, September 2000 - December 2007
- 100 mln copies of Vista sold in 2007
- Linux is used by 18% of medium businesses in Japan
- OS market shares in November 2007
- OS market shares: Win XP - 79.32%, Vista - 7.38%, Mac OS - 3.38%
- Symbian maintains 72% mobile OS market share
- Linux for smartphones to grow at 75% a year
- More CIOs are disinterested in Linux
- 80% of business PCs do not support premium Vista installs
- 127 mln mobile devices to run Linux by 2012
- Point of sale systems up 8% in 2006 in North America
- Linux server shipments up 15.3% in Q4 2006
- Global PC OS shares: Windows XP - 74.3%, other Windows - 21.6%
- 90% of all new user PCs to have Vista in 2007
- Server market in Q3 2006: Windows servers up 4.6%, Unix down 1.7%
- Vista to run on less than 10% of world PCs by year-end 2007
- Linux to lead smartphone OS market with 26.6% by 2010
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- By year-end 2006 70% of PCs will still run Windows XP
- EMEA outsourcing to generate $90.9 bln by 2009
- 60% of PCs sold through retail stores now run Media Center OS
- Chinese Linux market reached $11.8 mln in 2005
- 40% of data centers run healthy mix of Unix, Linux and Windows
- Mobile OS market shares in 2005: Symbian - 51%, Linux - 23%, Windows - 17%
- Embedded Linux to generate $100 mln in 2005
- Symbian phone shipments up 191% in the first half of 2005
- Linux revenues to grow at 64% a year in China
- Enterprise server OS market shares: Windows - 65-70%, Linux - 15-20%
- 1% of corporate PC users run Linux desktops
- Smart device OS market shares: Symbian - 62.8%, Microsoft - 15.9%, PalmSource - 9.5%
- Linux deployments in retail business up 34% in 2004
- Mobile device OS shares: Symbian - 55.9%, Windows - 12.7%, Linux - 11.3%
- Smartphone OS shares: Symbian - 76.2%, Linux - 13.7%, PalmOS - 4.6%, Windows - 4.5%, RIM - 1.0%
- 21% of Japanese companies and 33% of US companies use open source OS
- Linux market share reaches 1.1% in Australia
- Linux servers grew 36% in Canada in 2004
- In Q1 2005 48% of business PCs ran Windows 2000, 38% ran Windows XP, 10% ran Windows NT
- 53% of North American companies use Linux
- Linux server sales reached $1.2 bln in Q1 2005
- Patching Windows system costs 14% less than open source client
- Only 7% of companies officially run Service Pack 2
- Only 27% of mid-size business run Linux
- 88% of companies think Windows has the same or better quality than Linux
- Fedora Linux grows 122.4% in 6 months on Linux Web hosting market
- Australian handheld market OS shares: Symbian - 44.2%, Microsoft - 36.1%, Palm - 10.6%
- 21% of Windows users run 95, 98 or ME
- 58% of financial organizations use Linux
- Linux market share for servers and desktops
- Linux desktop shipments to small businesses to grow at 39% a year
- 1.4 copies of Windows Media Center OS sold
- Linux market share to reach 7% in 2008
- 6% of iPod users made a switch to MacOS
- Microsoft gets 48.1% PDA OS market share in Q3 2004
- Server migration patterns for 2004: most companies moving to Windows, leaving Netware
- Microsoft distributed 106 mln copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2
- 72% of billion-dollar companies plan to increase Linux spending
- 80% of PCs sold with Linux will run pirated Windows
- By 2009 Microsoft will win the wireless OS war over Symbian
- Major hurdles to Linux adoption
- 21% of IT executives plan to switch some Windows desktops to Linux
- Point-of-sale OS market shares: Windows - 43%, in-house - 19%, IBM - 17%
- Set top box software to generate $800 mln in 2008
- 47% of enterprise customers will not move from Windows to Linux
- 5% of all PCs in 2004 shipped with Linux
- Asia-Pacific Linux server market to grow 7.1%, software market to grow 96.6%
- 1 bln Windows users by 2010
- European Linux spending to reach $98 mln in 2004
- Desktop OS market shares for 2004
- 53% of large businesses run Linux for mission-critical apps
- 210 mln copies of Windows XP sold
- Windows market share to drop to 58% by 2007
- Computer book sales by operating system: Windows - 56%, Mac - 23%
- Countdown of security vulnerabilities and fixes
- 90% of IT directors consider Linux switch too costly
- Reliability and security quoted the main reasons for Linux switch
- 11% of Windows server customers plan to switch to Linux
- Embedded Linux market shares: homegrown, ucLinux, Debian, Red Hat
- 8% of Linux developers think SCO has merit
- Linux leads in Asian embedded/RTOS market
- Linux distributions market shares: RedHat, Debian, SuSE
- Linux desktop market share to reach 6% in 2007
- Linux has 25% share in servers, 2.8% in desktops
- Small businesses fear Microsoft dependence
- Linux OS to outpace MacOS in sales
- 49% of PCs run Windows 95/98, 6.6% run Windows XP
- Linux spreading among UK SMBs
- IDC on Linux usage in Australia and New Zealand
- IDC on OS wars
- 60% of enterprises will migrate 80% of their Unix apps to Linux
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- IDC: Smartphone OS market shares
- Gartner: Open source software popular in Australia
- Jupiter: Linux and OO numbers
- NetCraft: Windows 2003 usage doubles
- Celent: Windows in 65% of ATMs by 2005
- Mi2g: Linux Most Attacked Server OS
- Forrester: Linux development can be more costly
- Giga: Windows may be cheaper than Linux
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