Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jan 2006 20:13 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Unix dead? My answer is no, it's not dead. As a matter of fact, I think I hear it laughing on its way to the bank. Fewer Unix systems are being shipped, but they're commanding a higher premium than ever. Unix still represents a $2 billion [EUR 1.7 billion] market, the largest operating-system market by far. Despite Windows Server recent gains, it still represents about $1.6 billion [EUR 1.3 billion], when you're looking at operating system-only revenues. And Linux in terms of revenues represents one-tenth of what the good, gray Unixes combined represent. Granted the future belongs to Linux, but as a $2 billion market, is Unix dead?"
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2006-01-28
I had a women who runs a collection agency bring her server to my business. It was a SCO Xenix box. What a headache. A proprietory app written by the people who sold her the company. I convinced her to backup all data and apps she needed and try freebsd, which has at least some support for running SCO software. My god Xenix must be at least 20yrs. old now.