>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.
Rich, I take it you meant to type "PC manufacturers, who refuse to ship
computers _without_ a pre-installed OS from Microsoft" :>)
Barry
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