"amicus_curious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Hyman Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I believe Microsoft is quite nonplussed that their penetration >> into server markets has been blunted by free OS alternatives. > > That seems to be a frail reed indeed. Microsoft has gone from zero > server market share (at the advent of NT) to about 40% in terms of the > dollar value of new servers sold annually using Windows server OS and > about 50% in numerical units shipped. That is a pretty impressive > capture rate and it all occurred in the same timeframe that Linux was > evolving. Linux has made gains, to be sure, but almost all at the > expense of traditional Unix system sales.
So what does that tell you about the superiority of the traditional proprietary Unix systems? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
