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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Sun is an FSF patron
by James Gibletta on Tue 27th May 2003 14:26 UTC

Interestingly, Sun is a corporate patron of the Free Software Foundation:

http://patron.fsf.org/2003-patrons.html

As are some other firms you may have heard of.