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To: lizardK who wrote (12127)11/29/1998 3:36:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
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I haven't got the Amazon.com mindshare polling thing (Perl script) working yet. I *did though run across this survey on perl.org. The results, after nearly 5,000 responses, among other things, read like a final box score for the Unix Wars, and indicate the extreme ubiquity of Sun boxen on the network.

perl.org

I note that not only does Perl on Solaris/SunOS outpace Perl on Linux, it outpaces Win95,Win98,NT, and MacOS combined. The Unix platforms combined outpace the various Windows by a 5:1 margin.

Perl Usage Survey

Respondents so far: 4937

Top 10 most used platforms

Linux.................3137
Solaris...............2354
Win 95, 98, NT........2176
MacOS.................1261
SunOS.................1253
HP-UX................. 763
Free-, Net-, OpenBSD.. 671
IRIX.................. 610
AIX................... 536
DEC Unix, OSF/1....... 447

JCJ