On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 09:29:14PM -0700, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> In the same period, the entire UNIX market grew from $2.3 to $2.8 billion
> (an increase of $0.5 billion). It barely held its own market.
>
> The UNIX market is made up of SUN's Solaris 31%, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX at
> 29%, IBM's AIX at 26%, and Linux at 14%.
This survey is obviously flawed: it's based on dollar figures, and
most of the people who run Linux didn't pay for it, because it's
available freely. Additionally, due to the instransigence of most
PC manufacturers, who refuse to ship computers with a pre-installed
OS from Microsoft, the figures for Windows/Windows NT are inflated.
It's also missing Ultrix, Digital Unix, OSF/1, BSDI, Irix, and other
flavors of Unix that make a substantial part of the market.
And it fails to take into account the ever-increasing number of sites
that actually purchased NT, realized their mistake, and are now
covertly running Linux, often without the approval of higher-ups
in the organization.
But I'll bet all the pointy-haired managers out there actually believe
it (this survey) and will use it to justify their poor decisions.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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