Re: info center search. III.

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
> > Linux already has taken off.  It has more users than OS/2 did by orders of
> > magnitude
>
> Linux desktop marketshare less than .25 percent
> Peter Cohen, pcohen@maccentral.com
> December 19, 2001 11:00 am ET
>
> Linux may continue to gain favor as a server operating system, but for the
> desktop, and in particular amongst Internet users, Linux is a washout. That's
> the word from market research firm WebSideStory Inc., which today reported

There were a number of problems with this particular report.  For a
possibly more accurate count take a look at:

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

which shows hits at google.com and should be far more representative than
WebSideStory.  The share for linux is not large (1%), but certainly larger
than WebSideStory claims (0.25%).  Particularly interesting is the chart
of web browsers used to access google.  The chart doesn't have numbers,
but the graph indicates a sizable portion of non-IE users.  Big enough
that they can't be ignored.

There are many reasons to not code specifically for IE.  Business reasons
are some of them.  Business reasons are not necessarily the most important
ones.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com