[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press

[Massimo Marino]

Actual number you asked? actual numbers you are given.

At the Lab I am currently am (CERN-Geneva) the the following looks 
close to the actual situation:

    active Macs      1155
    Windows NT        537
    Windows 95       1435
    Windows 2000     3616     Total Windows:     5588
    Linux            2795

Of the Linux machines, 1488 are locked up in farms and I think we can 
argue that they are not to be included in the PC user arguments.
I don't know how many windows machines are similarly locked up in as 
servers (for example, the ones handling the dial-in modems should 
certainly not count) but there are quite some

So we have a distribution of

    Windows  5588-  70%
    Linux    1307   16%
    Mac      1155-  14%

Macs are up roughly 2% from pre-OS X.

One experiment decided to go OS X: many units are being ordered. 
Another is actively increasing the support for it and ensure its sw 
will run on OS X as well.

Lawrence Livermore has since last year official support for OS X and 
purchase plan with Apple. Lawrence Berkeley is following and a recent 
platform survey recommends expanding the use of Linux and OS X and 
reduce the presence of Windows machines. Lawrence Berkeley now has 
again (after years it was dropped) a certified in-house Certified Apple 
repair unit and this in part because of the increased numbers of OS X 
machines around.
I will ask our MUG President in case he has numbers of the growth at 
the lab and post again.

MIT fully supports OS X.

Looks also at these 2 links for example: 
http://www.macosxlabs.org/index.html and 
http://web.mit.edu/is/help/macos/macosx/macos10.2/

I have a personal count of 10 (that is TEN) colleagues who switched to 
Mac in the last year and a half (all TiBooks) and one more today (so 
the count is really 11) which has now ordered the new 17" display 
AlBook, To me these are not wishful thinking: it is something I have 
NEVER HAVE SEEn HAPPEN BEFORE! And again: at seminars and workshops the 
number of TiBooks (soon AlBooks?, well at least one!) is definitely no 
more irrelevant in the audience.

Henry, you are not in a different planet, maybe simple in the wrong 
field ;-)

Cheers

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:35 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:21:44 -0500 (EST)
> From: Henry Kalir <kalirhe at UMDNJ.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press
> Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10301221314160.10150-100000 at njmsa.umdnj.edu>
>
>
>
>>> This is why I see more and more Macs in
>>>> the scientific and academic community: they are just popping out as
>>>> mushrooms.
>>
>> Got any numbers for this?
>> -Joel
>
> I must be living on a different planet...All I see is *formerly* all 
> Mac
> Departments switching to PCs. In my former university - I had to 
> *insist*
> on a Mac...and got a 7100 leftover...
>
> Now - I've not even been asked...there's a Dell with a "pentium 4" on 
> my
> desk...
>
> I don't think we're going to see any numbers for these kind of "wishful
> thinking arguments" Joel...anymore than we'll get to know Peter Pan's
> age...
>

--
Massimo Marino
NERSC Division - HPC Department
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
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