On Thursday 2010-08-05 13:36, C wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:23, Martin Schlander wrote:
I'm in Denmark :-)
And here Ubuntu (+derivatives like Mint) have at least 60% of the home user linux market, maybe even more. And steadily growing.
And therein lies a question... why?
Because, as has been pointed out earlier, they just pick whatever lies around. Usually that's Windows, sometimes it's its cousin Ubuntu.
Outside of our little openSUSE Ivory Tower, I'm seeing the impact of this. Commercial vendors that used to fully support openSUSE are dropping it from their lineup of supported distributions...
Enterprise plays a role in that too. From the 11.3 release party in Nürnberg I overheard that because there is no SUSE equivalent to RHN that people are wandering off to Redhat.
I got into a discussion about this with support at a company that recently dropped openSUSE from their lineup. For them it came down to work vs return. They said in the past few years openSUSE went from being a significant portion of their paying customer base to pretty much zero. The way the conversation went, I have a feeling I'm the only openSUSE customer they've got left :-( I'm the only one who complained to support. With essentially zero customers on openSUSE, there was no point in providing an RPM anymore.
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