Michael Dolan Dot Com

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The Register: “Linux desktops grow and grow and grow”

URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/linux_desktop_survey/

Initial figures from the 2007 Linux Foundation Desktop survey are coming out. In this article, two items caught my eye:

1) SMB

The majority, 68.4 per cent, of Linux desktops are in small and home office set-ups or small businesses with less than 100 machines. Medium businesses of between 101 and 500 PCs account for 9.7 per cent and companies with between 1,001 and 5,000 account for 6.2 per cent of Linux desktops.

2) Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu

In terms of flavours of Linux the “Ubuntu family” accounts for 54.1 per cent followed by Red Hat versions with 50.2 per cent, while Novell SUSE picks up 35.2 per cent. (Eagle-eyed readers may notice this adds up to more than 100 per cent because many groups have not settled on just one Linux version in their office or organisation.)