Comments on: Unix/Linux Mindshare - Might Not Be Where You Think http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/06/19/unixlinux-mindshare-might-not-be-what-you-think/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:28:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/06/19/unixlinux-mindshare-might-not-be-what-you-think/#comment-3861 simon Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:03:29 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=150#comment-3861 Hi Phillip, You\'re right, quite a number of people are searching (incorrectly) for redhat. The popularity of suse is pretty dependend on geographic location. I was using the US as a forward indicator of mindshare (rightly or wrongly). Even if you do the \"red hat\"|redhat search, restricting by US geography gives you the following rank order of searches today: first place (most searched); second place Solaris; third equal Red Hat and Suse. See: http://www.google.com/trends?q=redhat+%7C+%22red+hat%22%2C+solaris%2C+ubuntu%2C+suse&ctab=0&geo=US&date=2006 Hi Phillip,

You\’re right, quite a number of people are searching (incorrectly) for redhat. The popularity of suse is pretty dependend on geographic location. I was using the US as a forward indicator of mindshare (rightly or wrongly). Even if you do the \”red hat\”|redhat search, restricting by US geography gives you the following rank order of searches today: first place (most searched); second place Solaris; third equal Red Hat and Suse.

See:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=redhat+%7C+%22red+hat%22%2C+solaris%2C+ubuntu%2C+suse&ctab=0&geo=US&date=2006

]]> By: Phillip Fayers http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/06/19/unixlinux-mindshare-might-not-be-what-you-think/#comment-3854 Phillip Fayers Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:55:27 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=150#comment-3854 You might want to add "redhat" to the search as well. The trend graph for: "red hat"|redhat, solaris, ubuntu looks a little rosier for Red Hat - but then suse is more searched for than either Red Hat or Solaris. You might want to add “redhat” to the search as well. The trend graph for: “red hat”|redhat, solaris, ubuntu looks a little rosier for Red Hat - but then suse is more searched for than either Red Hat or Solaris.

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