>> 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.
This mixes up two things. The first paragraph discusses the revenue size of
the market. NT tripled in the same period. NT is clobbering the UNIX market.
The second paragraph describes the number of installed systems (not
revenues.) It totals more than 100% because some sites have multiple OS's.
>It's also missing Ultrix, Digital Unix, OSF/1, BSDI, Irix, and other
>flavors of Unix that make a substantial part of the market.
A substantial part of a very small market. Our company (databasing tools)
supports the three flavors of UNIX found in Fortune 500 installations:
Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. The rest are insignificant.
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