Re: [MLUG] Linux winning again

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Matt Klaric wrote:

> And there are apparently even more people phasing out Windows.  The 
> search "phasing out windows" yields 225 results.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22phasing+out+windows%22
>
> That said, most of the top results seem to talk about phasing out 
> windows NT.

Yes, but there is a problem interpretting that result because there are so 
many more pages that mention Windows than that mention Solaris:

Solaris
http://www.google.com/search?q=solaris
hits: 164 million

Windows
http://www.google.com/search?q=windows
hits: 885 million

So I would say that the finding of just a few more "phasing out windows" 
than "phasing out solaris" is an indication that Solaris is in much 
greater danger of going away than is Windows.

Mike


> --matt
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:58 -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> > I just happened across a message where someone wrote that they were
> > "phasing out Solaris."  I assumed they were probably going to Linux, but
> > they didn't say that.  Anyway, this led me to do these Google searches:
> >
> > "phasing out solaris"
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22phasing+out+solaris%22
> > hits = 219
> >
> > "phasing out solaris" linux
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22phasing+out+solaris%22+linux
> > hits = 213
> >
> > "phasing out linux"
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22phasing+out+linux%22
> > hits = 22
> >
> >
> > The small number for the last one surprised me a little bit because Linux
> > is such a common term on the 'net:
> >
> > Linux
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=linux
> > hits: 1.2 billion!
> >
> > Solaris
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=solaris
> > hits: 164 million
> >
> >
> > Conclusions:  People who are phasing out Solaris are often switching to
> > Linux.  People are almost never phasing out Linux.  Even the 22 hits above
> > seemed to be mostly about phasing out Linux support contracts, possibly
> > because local IT staff had enough training to handle Linux on their own.
> >
> > Mike
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