The Windows family counts for almost 90%:
Not in academia, it doesn't.
Right - that's the missing 10%, mostly made up of acedamia and the entertainment industry.
Walk outside into the real world (which you eventually will, like it or not), however, and UNIX/MacOS/Linux systems virtually disappear.
40 years of UNIX, 20 years of Linux, and 10 years of MacOSX have failed to produce a combined market share greater than 9%, which has been flatlined for over a decade.
Only 1 out of 10 people want/need to use it.
-----Original Message----- From: gpc-owner@gnu.de [mailto:gpc-owner@gnu.de] On Behalf Of Kevan Hashemi Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:20 AM To: Prof. Harley Flanders Cc: Frank Heckenbach; gpc@gnu.de Subject: Re: Quo vadis, GPC?
Dear Harley,
The Windows family counts for almost 90%:
Not in academia, it doesn't. Here at Brandeis University, there are more
students with Apple lap-tops than Windows lap-tops. There are more and more students using Linux in preference to Windows. Yesterday I wiped another Windows drive and my student installed Ubunto. We're sick of Windows.
Only when you get into the vast realm of coporate America do you come across 90% Windows, and those people don't use the kind of software we're writing. They are still using XP because they are stuck with it from all their custom-made software packages from ten years ago.
I suspect that your 90% statistic does not apply to the GPC programmer's
customers. In the long run, it could be that Windows, being a costly operating sytem, is going to die. Indeed, it is my belief that it will. Everywhere in the Physics community, Linux and MacOS are taking over.
Yours, Kevan