__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Thursday 13 July 2006 16:01 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Red Hat Continues Booming Growth in Fiscal Q1
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>> | For the quarter, Red Hat reports software subscription sales of $71.5
>> | million, up 45 percent compared to the prior year's first quarter...
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> My how our baby has grown!!
> Bob Young must be a proud poppa.
>
>> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071106-story01.html
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> 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.
> And then we have the "appliances"
>
> Linksys 100 million?
> D-Link 100 million?
> NetGear 100 million?
> Tivo 80 million?
The OLPC project might deliver 200-300 mllion Fedora laptops.
> PCs sold with Windows this year? 100 million? maybe even only 70
> million?
>
> And Linux seems to be growing about 45% per year.
> Remember when 20% per year for Microsoft was considered phenomenal
> growth?
>
> Remember the Bamboo Tree?
It being eaten away by those are led to the verge of extinction.
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