Companies using Linux
We have data on 1,714,446 companies that use Linux. The companies using Linux are most often found in United States and in the Information Technology and Services industry. Linux is most often used by companies with 1-10 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue. Our data for Linux usage goes back as far as 3 years and 11 months.
If you’re interested in the companies that use Linux, you may want to check out Canonical Ubuntu and CentOS as well.
Who uses Linux?
| Company | Acrelec SAS |
| Website | acrelec.com |
| Country | France |
| Revenue | 100M-200M |
| Company Size | 500-1000 |
| Company | JOHN HOWELL |
| Website | wlsam.com |
| Country | United States |
| Revenue | 1M-10M |
| Company Size | 50-200 |
| Company | The North Face, Inc. |
| Website | thenorthface.com |
| Country | United States |
| Revenue | 100M-200M |
| Company Size | 1000-5000 |
| Company | Dailymotion SA |
| Website | dailymotion.com |
| Country | France |
| Revenue | 50M-100M |
| Company Size | 500-1000 |
| Company | Gremi Business Communication Sp. z o.o. |
| Website | rp.pl |
| Country | Poland |
| Revenue | 100M-200M |
| Company Size | 500-1000 |
| Company | Website | Country | Revenue | Company Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acrelec SAS | acrelec.com | France | 100M-200M | 500-1000 |
| JOHN HOWELL | wlsam.com | United States | 1M-10M | 50-200 |
| The North Face, Inc. | thenorthface.com | United States | 100M-200M | 1000-5000 |
| Dailymotion SA | dailymotion.com | France | 50M-100M | 500-1000 |
| Gremi Business Communication Sp. z o.o. | rp.pl | Poland | 100M-200M | 500-1000 |
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Linux Market Share and Competitors in Operating Systems
We use the best indexing techniques combined with advanced data science to monitor the market share of over 15,000 technology products, including Operating Systems. By scanning billions of public documents, we are able to collect deep insights on every company, with over 100 data fields per company at an average. In the Operating Systems category, Linux has a market share of about 36.6%. Other major and competing products in this category include:
Operating Systems
What is Linux?
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Trovalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short). Popular Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Top Industries that use Linux
Looking at Linux customers by industry, we find that Information Technology and Services (6%), Computer Software (5%) and Retail (5%) are the largest segments.
Top Countries that use Linux
35% of Linux customers are in United States, 6% are in United Kingdom and 6% are in Germany.
Distribution of companies that use Linux based on company size (Employees)
Of all the customers that are using Linux, a majority (63%) are small (<50 employees), 8% are large (>1000 employees) and 29% are medium-sized.
Distribution of companies that use Linux based on company size (Revenue)
Of all the customers that are using Linux, a majority (78%) are small (<$50M), 5% are large (>$1000M) and 11% are medium-sized.
