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Survey Finds Ubuntu is the Fastest-Growing Linux Distribution

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Matt Asay
Feb 11, 2008

“I’ve written before about the data collected from Alfresco’s
Open Source Barometer survey. While originally a survey of 10,000
members of Alfresco’s ‘content community’ (i.e., those who register
with Alfresco to download white papers, documentation, etc.), the
survey now includes a swelling population of the community, with
35,000+ members…

“So when I see Ubuntu at 23 percent of Alfresco’s Linux user
base (second only to Red Hat at 35 percent), with 51.3 percent of
Alfresco’s users choosing to deploy on Linux (with a scant 26.5
percent opting to deploy on Windows), I take notice…”

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