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

[Henry Kalir]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Massimo Marino wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Perhaps I am....got any positions at CERN for an MD PhD?

Best,

Henry