__/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Thursday 13 July 2006 23:50 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Thursday 13 July 2006 16:01 \__
>>
>>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Red Hat Continues Booming Growth in Fiscal Q1
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | For the quarter, Red Hat reports software subscription sales of $71.5
>>>> | million, up 45 percent compared to the prior year's first quarter...
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> My how our baby has grown!!
>>> Bob Young must be a proud poppa.
>>>
>>>> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071106-story01.html
>>>
>>> Let's play with some numbers shall we?
>>
>>
>> Earlier on I came across the following report, which was updated some time
>> today (it emerged as new in the RSS feed):
>>
>> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=rhat
>>
>>
>>> Average support fee $70
>>> Supported copies 1 million?
>>> Unsupported (legacy) 10 million?
>>> Fedora (10:1) 10 million?
>>> SUSE 20 million?
>>> Linspire 10 million?
>>> Mandriva 10 million?
>>> Ubuntu 20 million?
>>> Knoppix 20 million?
>>>
>>> About 100 million maybe?
>>>
>>> And only 100 distributions left to account for?
>>>
>>> OK, so there is probably some double counting. Some of these are just
>>> live CDs used for "rescue" operations, and some are "dual boot" where
>>> linux is used primarily for special projects and in "free time".
>>>
>>> I wonder if VMWare Player and Virtual PC are changing the rules a
>>> little?
>>
>>
>> Speaking of virtualisation tools, Microsoft has made theirs a free (as in
>> beer) download. I guess they would better join the outlandish party than
>> be left aside in an empty house.
>>
>
> Well, they made a version "free" which is severely outdated.
> That version is nearly 2 years old. Compared to Vmware it looks like XP
> compared to a modern linux version: simply idiotic and totally limited
>
> Anybody using that "MS-offering" gets for sure what he deserves
>
> < snip >
Well, that product is an outcome of the recent acquisition of a small and
obscure company (you wouldn't expect Google or Microsoft to implement their
own 'novelties', would you?). This makes you wonder why they did not attempt
to buy (READ: kill) VMWare in the same way that they recently killed a Mac
program for professional photography ...possibly yet to embed WMP
(proprietary Windows-specific alternative to JPEG) in it, as default format.
Or even think Oracle's attempt to buy Red Hat and MySQL... Peoplesoft maybe?
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