Star UNIX's True Competition: Linux?
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th May 2003 23:36 UTC
General Unix 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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RE: UNIX's True Competition: Linux?
by Matthew Baulch on Tue 27th May 2003 13:02 UTC

> Seeing old traditional Unices fading away with time, or at
> least losing their glorious role every day to Linux or
> Windows, truly saddens me.

I've never heard anyone say that before but you hit the fact right on the head. Oh how I wish DEC still existed!