Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th May 2003 23:36 UTC
Linux only has a small percentage of the computing market, however Microsoft already considers it a major competition as the open source OS steals the hearts of many users. Following the hard numbers though, Microsoft also increases its market share on both server and desktop space with time. The only logical explanation is that Linux steals quite a market share from the traditional UNIX providers (SCO, Sun, SGI, HP, IBM). But only Sun seems to truly be in a real Linux trouble, as it is the one with a resistance to Linux integration to its full product range.
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I'd say SCO is in deep, deep shite.
They won't be missed.
Sun will be all right, they have some quality about their organisation. Sun hackers do Gnome contributions for example. Selling very popular software is not a viable business model (OS's, Office suites, servers, browswers whatever) Sun have nice hardware and expertise to sell. I don't know what Microsoft are going to sell yet.