Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:12:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... Message-ID: <199708212212.QAA21565@xmission.xmission.com>
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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
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