From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 21 15:13:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22746 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22719 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id QAA21565 for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:12:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199708212212.QAA21565@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:12:49 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is the first line of an interesting article by Jeff Bliss of _Computer Reseller News_. He summarizes the NT and UNIX marketplaces as follows: Revenue UNIX NT 1996 19B .8B 1999/2000 37B 6.5B Whoa, wait a minute? I thought NT had already killed UNIX? Why is it that last year UNIX outsold NT sytems by *24 times*? And, even given the "explosive growth" projected for NT, in 2000 it will still sell *one sixth" of the UNIX marketplace? Not to mention all the UNIX systems (our dearly beloved FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, etc) that don't contribute money, but do contributed *seats* to the UNIX world. NT, I sneer at thee! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com