Over 50,000 PCs in Government and Business Running Ubuntu 4 October, 2008
Posted by aronzak in Linux, Windows.Tags: Education, Linux, Linux adoption, Open Source Adoption
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The site WorksWithU is a site that shows, with a limited degree of accuracy, the number of PCs knwon to be running Ubuntu in business, bovernment and educational settings. This lists at least 45,570 PCs (or far more, I took the bottom level for some) and 676 servers running Ubuntu Linux. Impressive. The rael number may be much higher, and will continue to grow.
The number of total Linux machines must be far higher. I can remember a few occurances of other events in the news that show great Linux adoption. Japan has replaced Windows 9x with Dream Linux in some areas, and schools may switch to Linux entirely. In Germany a tax authority moved 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux. And the BBC has suggested that two thirds of computers in Latin America may be running Linux. And here’s a reason why:
“(Microsoft) are the big monopoly and they come from America. The xenophobic mentality in Brazil actually is what drives people towards open source software in some cases.”
And another:
| Gross National Income (GNI) per capita | $44,710 | $4,710 |
| Cost of Windows Vista Business | $186 | $364 |
| Cost of MS Office 2007 Standard | $289 | $587 |
| Cost of Business Licenses as % of GNI per capita | 1.06% | 20.1% |
| Cost of Windows Vista Home Basic | $116 | $252 |
| Cost of Office Home/Student | $109 | $117 |
| Cost of Home Licenses as % of GNI per capita | 0.5% | 7.8% |
| All figures in US dollars. An exchange rate of USD$1 = R$1.70 was used to compute the cost of licenses in Brazil. | ||
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