I often wonder about the alleged figures for Linux penetration.  Depending on who you talk to (and who they work for) you can get any figure from 0.8 to about 12% (as I saw recently)

I dont wish to say my opinion on the actual figure because I simply don’t know, however what I will say is this:

The MS faithful like to remind Linux users that Windows dominates the PC, whilst I will not argue that Windows has far more users than Linux that in itself should mean that the alternative view to Microsoft products would never get heard?  If Linux has so few users, our posts should be getting lost in a plethora of comments from Windows ones.

That IMO is not the case, in the majority of IT forums I visit, recomendations and discussions about products other than Microsoft ones are easy to see.  Take Microsoft Watch for example, at one point the only people contributing to the forum of Joe Wilcox seemed to be Linux.users and I think that even Joe would... ... read more >>> openbytes.wordpress.com