Quanity of Linux systems passed Apple last year, as you've repeatedly been shown. I'm tired of doing everyone's homework, and since I've provided several references to this before, you'll to start providing some proof of your assertions for once, if possible.
Should have been Quantity, I'm out on the deck using a handheld PC (H/PC). Tired of repeating the same lessons, about to go for a boat ride. Good day to all.
You claim that Solaris "owns the greatest market share of all available Unix products in the US.".
In a New York Times article article dated Nov. 15, 2004, John Markoff reports "Sun currently has about a million Solaris users around the world, according to an estimate by the International Data Corporation, a market research firm."
Last week, Apple reported that their Unix-based Mac OS X operating system has over 14 million active users.
According to your homework, 1 million is greater than 14 million. No wonder you're tired.
The current wild-ass guess for Linux is 18 million -- could be far more, could be far less. Apple is at approximately 14 million. So you're right unless the Linux numbers are way off, and I think they're probably low.
However, Apple definitely has the highest number of UNIX desktop installations.