[N3WBI3]

Do you not unstained the difference between a deployment and a sale of hardware running an OS? What do you think matters more to oracle.

Your claim of 40%

I said nothing about server shipped with, as I said you are trying to through around meaningless numbers to confuse the situation...

I also said 'think' as in I was not sure.

I also showed you that even if there were zero virtual machines in the world and every box ran *only* what it was shipped with and no servers were sold without an operating system *STILL* the 12-3.6 difference in sales growth means this year the number of new Linux sales versus new windows sales will be equal *and* Linux will gain market share while MS will lose it..

You sat there with a confused look on your face and *still* tried to talk about numbers with no bearing on the conversation.

[Golden Eagle]

It's pretty funny watching you celebrate how linux is cannibalizing Unix profits, since you don't even realize it's leaving M$ with a larger percentage share of overall server software dollars. You somehow think you're damaging Microsoft, when you're actually damaging the *nix market's total dollars instead.

It's why we see reports like this - while unit growth in 2006 should match the growth seen in 2005, revenue growth is only expected to be an anemic 1% compared to 4% last year.

Who's losing all that money? Not Microsoft.