On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:39:11PM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: > > By the way: an unknown fact, is that more than 50% of the worldwide > > UNIX installations belong to SCO, and all the other (including Sun and > > HP) have (together!) less than SCO alone. In numbers, and ignoring > > costs, it is possible to say that SCO shipped more licenses than all > > the others together, and was leading the UNIX market. > > Can you back this up? I've read elsewhere (in the Open Group's position > paper on the trial IIRC) SCO owns more around the 3% of the WHOLE > market, and if you put that alongside what you've just said, that would make: > > 94% M$/Linux > 3% SCO > 3% SOLARIS+AIX+IRIX+HPUX+...
Well, even if we assume those number are correct, didn't SCO also claim there that linux is a unix variant? And then there are the BSDs. Anyway, the new version of the SCO allegation are, as usual, funny reading. They have not yet regained connection with reality. There are all too many simple factual falacies there. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
