In a recent note, Matt Simpson said: > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:26:33 -0500 > > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:02:41 -0500, Ed Gould <[log in to unmask]> 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? > I recall the original article poorly, but ISTR that it implied that Linux was not counted in the UNIX figures, but separately.
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