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To: Golden Eagle
I'm tired of doing everyone's homework

You claim that Solaris "owns the greatest market share of all available Unix products in the US.".

In a New York Times article article dated Nov. 15, 2004, John Markoff reports "Sun currently has about a million Solaris users around the world, according to an estimate by the International Data Corporation, a market research firm."

Last week, Apple reported that their Unix-based Mac OS X operating system has over 14 million active users.

According to your homework, 1 million is greater than 14 million. No wonder you're tired.

134 posted on 01/22/2005 1:51:21 PM PST by HAL9000 (Spreading terrorist beheading propaganda videos is an Act of Treason!)
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To: HAL9000

Your link doesn't work, requires a paid subscription to the New York Times which I suppose you must own. But I'll admit that I may have gotten confused when posting the Unix chart from 2000, apparently Apple's products weren't based on Unix at that point.

The bigger issue still remains, in the overall *nix family, Linux has just passed Apple, and the lead is expected to grow. Being the owner of several Apple systems throughout their history myself, I'm extremely disapointed to know that instead of folks the world over purchasing a true US Unix product from an American IT company like Apple, more and more are just going to be downloading some free copy of Linux instead. If you'd rather argue that Apple is second place to Linux instead of Sun, I could really care less. They both are losing to Linux.


138 posted on 01/22/2005 2:18:01 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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