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Story: Quarter of SMEs test Linux
Posted by: Pete Scargill (Tuesday 16 December 2003, 12:34 PM)
To say that 1 in 4 small and medium sized enterprises are trialling Linux is simply misleading as it’s based on a statistically insignificant percentage. This is because the survey is based on companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees and yet 99% of small and medium sized enterprises in the UK actually have well under 100 employees so would not be included in the sample.
What the survey is actually saying then is that 1 in 4 of the tiny 1% of small and medium sized enterprises with over 100 employees is trialling Linux. Companies of this size will typically also support an in-house team with a background in UNIX and running big servers. This puts rather a different complexion on the survey’s results.
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