TOM Technology News US Eastern Time October 20 (Beijing time October 21) According to the latest report of foreign electricity, the latest survey results of the market research company IDC show that Linux operating system users are the most loyal operating system users in the global operating system users. . Once the operating system is used, only a few part of the Linux operating system user will turn other operating systems. IDC released this survey at the IDP ASIA / PACIFIC IT INFRASTRUCTURE VISION 2004 conference.
The survey results of IDC show that Linux operating system users have a loyalty to 94%. Although Microsoft's Windows operating system security is very poor, there are many users who represent other operating systems. However, the results of IDC show that the user's loyalty of the Windows operating system still reaches around 86%. UNIX operating system users are 82%, according to the third place.
Idc Asia Pacific Computer System Research Group Deputy Director Avneesh Saxena said that in general, once a type of operating system is started, the computer user will not substantially replace its operating system. However, the results of IDC also show that the current operating system NetWare user faith is only 58%. This means that there will be 42 NetWare operating system users in 100 people use other operating systems. NetWare is a network operating system launched by Novell. NetWare important features are open system structures based on basic module design ideas. NetWare is an open web server platform that can be easily expanded. The NetWare system provides a consistent service such as D0S, 0S / 2, Macintosh, etc.), and different network protocol environments such as TCP / IP, and various workstation operating systems.
In order to determine the results of IDC, Novell also said that from 1992 to 2002, the company's operating system market share is constantly shrinking. Barry CHEN, head of Taiwan, said that the company's operating system users are mainly small and medium-sized enterprise users, which are constantly turning to a more cheap operating system, such as Microsoft's launched NT Server, etc.
According to Novell's plans, the company intends to launch an Enterprise Edition operating system that supports SUSE Linux and NetWare operating systems during the end of 2005 this year.
Appendix: Global operating system user loyalty ranking
Operating system loyalty
Linux 94%
WINDOWS 86%
UNIX 82%
NetWare 58%
(David compilation)
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