Growth at Robert Pogson

In recent days, M$ has boasted that it has sold 88million Vistas. In ten months. When about 200 million PCs were sold. That’s less than 50% of their market. If they cannot compete against their own obsolete product, they surely are not going to compete against GNU/Linux which has had some of the new features for years. The numbers do not even count the boxes that were shipped with Vista but converted to GNU/Linux or XP. Still, they jacked the price up so high they made record profits. GNU/Linux will still keep running up the middle and score. With performance like that, M$ will have to yield a lot of market share. Too much to ignore. Good.

In the last two days, I have met people from several schools and a pair of consultants who all are looking for a solution to IT problems. Vista is not it. They have no machines that will run it. GNU/Linux is a rugged, robust, reliable option for IT on old equipment. They can minimize their costs by buying a few new machines and networking equipment. They can do everything with existing machines as thin clients and newer machines as terminal servers or powerful thick clients for multimedia generation. They can become self-supporting by training local staff how to use GNU/Linux.

These folks are not alone. Around the world, organizations large and small seek to keep IT going and growing. The world does not want to scrap everything and replace it with stuff that works no better. The world is ready for GNU/Linux. There will be a lot of growth in the next year. Be a participant in this revolution, not a bystander.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.