> 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.
I mean those numbers indicate that 100 % of the market uses one of those
4 UNIXes (or is it UNICIES ?). That is a bit unrealistic and VERY misleading.
FreeBSD (another player in the Free UNIX market) is fairly widespread (the
IMDB uses it as does Yahoo).
> 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.
Also probably doesn't take into account any systems behind firewalls
so that they aren't actually on the web. I mean here at my "real" job, I have 5
LINUX boxes that I am responsible for and I have 1 FreeBSD machine at home
and 4 more that I maintain.
> 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.
Matt Soffen
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