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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Anyway, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
>
> "Web client stats suggest that Microsoft Windows has about an
> 88% share, Apple Mac OS 7% and Linux 1%.
> The correlation between desktop share and web client share
> is being increasingly challenged by the rise of mobile web
> access, which rose through 1% in 2009 and 4% in 2010."
>
> I don't think anyone would debate that Windows boxes are the
> largest users of NTP as clients, but I daresay that the
> breakdown of NTP _servers_ by platform would show a lot more
> FreeBSD (+ NetBSD/OpenBSD/etc) and Solaris boxes then what
> desktop client browsing stats might indicate, likely followed
> by MacOS X and Linux....
I would guess there are a few hundred million appliances with
NTP clients (and many that serve as well).
Likely a large percentage of those embedded OS are Linux,
however VX Works, ThreadX, QNX, Windows CE, likely also have
large market share.
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