LOL, "you are correct sir!" (In my best Ed Mcmahon voice<--- Johnny Carson show, showing my age here...) Indeed, market share is an extrapolation from sales of said hardware/software. In this case, we're talking about sales of OSX versus sales of Windows. I'm sorry, is this an unfair statistic for some odd reason? What statistics would you like us to use? It's good enough for market analysts and investors but not for you? Unfortunately, that's the best set of statistics that we've got to work with from year to year with public traded companies. If Apple is consistently selling Mac/OSX to 2-4% of the market (I'm talking YEAR not quarter), please explain to me how you are ever going to get more than a 4% installation base....
Like I said, 90+% desktop sales for 2005 --> Microsoft
35+% Enterprise server sales for 2005 (beating UNIX) --> Microsoft
0% Server Sales for 2005--> Apple
2.1-2.4% desktop sales (I'm feeling generous here...) for 2005 --> Apple
Don't buy the stats? Google it, or dig them up on Gartner research. Did you honestly think that Apple commanded a larger percent of the desktop market? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but they don't, and never will by the look of things.
The rest of your post is full of fairly subjective opinions and exclusively unique examples from Mac zealots, enthusiasts and the like and isn't really worth discussing in depth because I could pull just as many articles and benchmarks from MS enthusiasts and what does that prove?
Your example of the OSX cluster is a good chuckle. Incidentally, clustering was only an option after you guys stole a nice fat chunk of FreeBSD code. There's a very good reason why Apple computers comprise less than .01% of the enterprise business server datacenters out there in the world...
Sigh... Ok finally, your facile digression on business IT costs/savings is just plain silly. I worked in the industry for a few years, I managed, designed, budgeted and built enterprise datacenters and solutions for a medium sized firm that covered 13 states. In fact, ironically enough, my grad degree is in management information systems. Now, all these things don't make me an expert by any means and I certainly haven't seen everything out there, but I'm here to tell you, in all my experience between companies I worked for and sister companies we'd trade IT solutions with, I've never seen or heard of any IT manager in their right mind using a statistically significant Mac solution in their server infrastructure. Hell, I'd like to see it. I'm sure there's a few novelties out there, but once again... my experience reflects the generalized statistics that we can get from Gartner research on annual server sales. You're going to find 35+% Windows Servers, 25-30+% Solaris or Linux and the rest are going to be various mainframe architectures, etc... What you are not going to find are very many businesses in their right mind using OSX clusters to run their transaction processing systems... Again, that's a cute example from a university lab, but it's just not representative of the real business world...
