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$/Linux > 3% SCO > 3% SOLARIS+AIX+IRIX+HPUX+...
First of all, I wrote "UNIX installations", so "M$" is irrelevant. I'm afraid that you confused 3 different things, and I emphasized it in my answer (for example by writing that costs are ignored): When you are talking about UNIX *market*, Sun is the leader, and HP follows. Because one workstation of HP or Sun is sold for tens of thousands of Dollars, rather than $39 per a Linux distro. And most Linuxes are downloaded. Please see IDC numbers that relate to UNIX market (in Dollars), and see Sun and HP in the leadership. Then, if you count INSTALLATIONS, then Linux takes the #1, but far from 94% (the numbers are closer to 40%. And if you include MacOS-X, then the number is even lower). And when you count LICENSES, SCO jumps to the first place (because "license" is irrelevant in Linux). There are millions in the world. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= 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]
