[Golden Eagle]

If you compare, IBM isn't doing much worse than Microsoft.

HA! Microsoft is at record profits, as usual, while IBM is selling off divisions. For the last year, what is that, about a 20% gap that formed? Yep.

[antiRepublicrat]

You have to go five-year to include when IBM made its decisions to go with Linux.

They get closer and farther, and were ahead and even in points after thier Linux strategy began.

Of course, we can throw another company in there that heavily relies on open source (especially in their server software):

Whoa! Of course, if you take a short term look between Apple and Microsoft like you like to do, it looks like Apple is doing worse than Microsoft: