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To: damniseedemons who wrote (17468)	2/13/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal - Nobody really knows how much market penetration Linux has, but I suspect it's as big as Solaris and definitely bigger than NT, but not among the 'enterprise' customer. I'm talking about small ISPs, school labs, dorm rooms, blah blah blah. I really wish somebody would do some kind of study to try to measure Linux installed base size, but because of the nature of the product, I doubt it would work. A corollary to this is the fact that because it's so hard to buy a system without an OS, many computers that are running Linux are being counted as NT or 95 machines, when in fact the owners wiped the hard drive as one of the first operations on their new computer. Then there's the whole 'dual boot' issue. I know of hundreds of people that are running 95 or NT and Linux on the same box. Lots of CS labs in universities are going this route, when before they would have bought Suns. Also, Sun's been around for a long time. In a very short time, Linux has made it onto millions of machines. I see no reason for that trend to stop. -justinb