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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Are there any UNIX vendors that sell UNIX that don't also sell hardware on which to run it? If not, how much does it matter whether UNIX market share is moving over to Linux? After all, UNIX would just be extra value added to the purchase.
To answer my own first question, I just thought of Sun, who sells an x86 version of Solaris without also selling x86 hardware. And that's probably why they don't like Linux.