How many Ubuntu installations are there?

[ecowan]

Initially I wanted to nudge Ufile (a publisher of Canadian income tax programs) to polish up its products so that they were completely compatible with Ubuntu/Wine. As it is, there are only a couple of minor glitches, which I was able to work around or avoid.
However, though it is said that Canonical collects pings, no-one is telling about Ubuntu nor any other flavour of Linux. Now it occurs to me that, if this is true, it is a major lack of incentive for any commercial developer of software to be interested in this market.
Comments?

[grahammechanical]

In a general sense it is true that many commercial software companies can only see two PC operating systems. Do not forget that there are also many Linux developers. I would not agree that no one is speaking about Linux distributions. There is plenty of information around.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/

One and a half million Ubuntu laptops is just a start

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-and-hp-a-successful-team-in-the-education-sector/

http://insights.ubuntu.com/resources/article/asus-and-ubuntu-deliver-affordable-world-class-laptops-to-usa-education/

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/hp-releases-ubuntu-loaded-machines-in-1500-stores-in-china/

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/bodega-aurrera-stores-shipping-hp-pcs-with-ubuntu-preinstalled/

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-helps-millions-of-indian-students-to-learn/

The biggest incentive for any business to look for new markets is the fear of going bust.

Regards.

[ssam]

Chris Kenyon, vice president for OEM at Canonical Ltd., said that because of a lack of registration, any number provided for Ubuntu usage is a "guesstimate".[104] In fall 2011 Canonical estimated that Ubuntu had more than 20 million users worldwide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#Installed_base

some more numbers at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#DESKTOP

If you want to make it easier to be counted you can enable the popularity contest https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPopularityContest