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> From: Andreas Ramos[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >> 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.
>
ahem. this buys into the bias that revenue stream equates to #installed
base and/or quality. NEITHER is true, particularly in this case.
you know this could be turned on its ear - -instead of glorifying the
revenue stream corporations are handing to MSFT, the story could be
talking about how the market is being gouged ....
> The second paragraph describes the number of installed systems (not
> revenues.) It totals more than 100% because some sites have multiple
> OS's.
>
/many/ 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.
>
hmmm... i don't think the linux market is "insignificant" -- do you
consider the Mercedes or Jag markets to be "insignificant" in the car
market schema? mayhaps insignificant in Fortune 100 companies
purchasing plans -- but F500 companies no longer (did they ever?) employ
most people in the US. and in other markets (ie abroad) there are more
small companies yet --all of whom could benefit from less expensive
alternatives to MSFT monopoly pricing.
kathy
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