On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:02:41 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF > >IBM captured 31 percent of the $4.3 billion in Unix server sales in the >second quarter, edging out Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems >Inc., who recorded 30 percent and 29.5 percent respectively, research >firm IDC said Friday. > I wonder what gets counted as a "Unix server". P-Series obviously qualifies. How about z/Series, which might be running VM, z/OS, Linux, or all of the above. Does IBM necessarily know whether a z/box is a "Unix server"? If the customer doesn't buy any software licenses, he's probably running Linux. If he buys z/VM, he may or may not be running Linux. And does a z/OS system always qualify as a "Unix server", or does it depend on how heavily the USS part gets used? And how about X-series, which might be running Linux or BSD? I really think it would be difficult to get an accurate estimate of how much of IBM's hardware revenue is "Unix servers". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
