What market sector? Embedded, Beowulf/cluster, ? This is really interesting stuff. Is this figure lost hardware sales?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:57 PM Subject: linuxbios targets ... > > I heard an amazing data point from a company a few days ago, discussing > the linuxbios issue. > > They estimate they have lost $30M just this year due to their inability to > support linuxbios on their boxes (no, it wasn't IBM, but it could have > been). Now for the company in question, this is peanuts -- not even 1/1000 > of their gross revenue. But for the salesman for the company in question, > this is lost opportunity to make targets. Their salesmen are more than a > little unhappy. But the companies persist in saying "there is no market" > for LinuxBIOS, the same way they said "there is no market" for Linux, and > the same way they said "there is no market" for Unix. > > It's always amazing to me that small companies in the US, with so much > more to lose, are so much more willing to take on risk than the big > companies, who can waste tens of millions in the wink of an eye -- far > more than it would cost them to field LinuxBIOS. > > ron > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
