Posted on 03/10/2005 9:38:47 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
Linux is expected to become a $36bn business by 2008 and well over a quarter of all servers shipping
Isn't this a bit optimistic?
"Enemies" of Linux? What a joke, LOL. Try US corporations defending themselves against foreign born clones of our UNIX software being pushed on us by socialists.
Where is the traditional Freeper Crybaby photo?
That's including the hardware, pumped up by IBM mainframes, which may only be running Linux on one partition. And still overblown, just like supposed adoption rates have been for the last 5+ years.
To see what's really going on, look at the Linux vendors performance on Wall Street. Tumbling down, to less than half their value of a year ago. Here's one good example:
Novell stock slumps after restatement of revenue
http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh43710_2005-02-28_16-00-38_n28257657_newsml
NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Shares of Novell Inc.(NOVL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fell more than 5 percent on Monday to an 18-month low after the software maker reclassified its quarterly results to show lower revenue from new software licenses than previously stated.
"Subsequent to the issuance of our press release and the conference call announcing our results of operations for our first fiscal quarter 2005, it came to our attention that $6.1 million of Linux & platform services revenue reported as new software licenses should have been reported as maintenance and services," the company said in a regulatory filing.
As a result, Novell, a pioneer of networking software that has switched in the past year to become a distributor of Linux, posted net new software licenses revenue of $44.3 million, instead of the reported $50.4 million. There was no change to total revenue or net income in the first fiscal quarter 2005.
Oh come on, kinda over-dramatic! Guess I didn't realize Ford is an "enemy" of GM. Burger King is an "enemy" of McDonald's.
The are called competitors!
Not really, could it be lower? of course. But with companies like Oracle, BEA, IBM, and Veritas making them the recommeded solution there will be a good deal of business going that way.
I'm curious, is your objection only to Linux, or is it to all open source software?
Yes, we know your mantra. We that know IBM, HP and Oracle are socialist organizations bent on destroying American capitalism.
Or running 40 LPARs with Linux. You'll never know.
To see what's really going on, look at the Linux vendors performance on Wall Street. Tumbling down,
If stock performance equalled sales, then Microsft's sales would be stagnant. Weren't the MS schills touting a Microsoft sales increase last year?
On novell, it has not been a great year, nor has it for Redhat, SUN, and even MS (down from 30 to 25 from November to now). Novell bought suse (and thus got into the Linux market) at less than 4 dollars a share, people overreacted and they went up way too high, its correcting (look at the 2 year picture).
Might Linux not make the numbers they say? could be, I dont have access to their research data and using stock prices to predict growth is about as accurate as throwing chicken bones.
You mean you guys are not? =)
Depends on who you talk to. I have been called a commie here and a facist on slashdot.....
A man without a country! It seems that having realistic views, no real platform loyalty, and not subscribing to a mantra ("MS can do no good!" vs "Linux is a commie plot!") gets me in trouble everywhere.
Luckily, my Slashdot karma is so high (it was maxed back when they still showed points) that I can say whatever I want. Screw the Linux fanatics and libs who'll mark me -1 because I said a nice thing about Microsoft, a bad thing about Linux, or something pro-Bush, pro-military or anti-environut. I can take the hit.
You don't belong here ... go away! =)
I said it before in FP, people act like Linux in a way-of-life or religion ... it's a freakin' Operating System!
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