Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 4, 2009 10:32 PM EDT
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Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm. Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year. That number contradicts third-party market figures, trumpeted by Microsoft, that showed Linux shipping on as few as 4% of U.S. netbooks.

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Finally, some realistic numbers caitlyn 8 992 Nov 8, 2009 2:43 PM

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