Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ cr00zng ] on Thursday 31 August 2006 18:46 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >
> >> The world no longer wants Win(Dell/Tel). Intel, Dell and Microsoft are all
> >> struggling financially and subsequently shrink/lose value.
> >
> > If you call a company with $44 billions/year total revenue and $12
> > billion+/year net income struggling, then yeah; that would be
> > Microsoft....
> >
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual
>
> Seen that page 3 hours ago (it was modified, so it came up in the feed). The
> observation to make is that, while the world is adopting more and more
> computers/ing and there's inflation too, Microsoft's profits seem to have
> remained the merely the same (even worse previously, due to increases
> spendings). And the value of the stock would have dropped below $20 had
> Microsoft not bought it to get the figures artificially elevated. Microsoft
> will meet the destiny of SCO, but it will take quite a few years for old
> technology to 'phase out' completely.
>
That's a subjective opinion at best of a multi-billion dollars company;
most stock-brokers would disagree with you.
Well, here's another link for 2006 Q2 server and platform market,
actual performance:
http://www.itjungle.com/two/two083006-story03.html
Quote:
"The Windows platform, which has been jockeying for dominance with Unix
for the past several years in the server market, accounted for $4.2
billion in sales in the second quarter, according to IDC, and increase
of 3.1 percent. Windows-based server shipments increased by 11 percent.
IDC said in a statement accompanying the statistics that companies are
beginning to deploy richer Windows server configurations, often as part
of a virtualization and server consolidation initiative, and this is
helping drive Windows sales faster than the market at large."
I didn't make up the "richer Windows server configurations" part :).
As for the Linux servers:
"Somewhat surprisingly, Linux seems to be running out of steam a
little. After nearly four years of double-digit revenue growth, the
Linux server sub-market accounted for only $1.5 billion in sales in the
second quarter of 2006, an increase of only 6.1 percent."
Again, not my words... :)
Cr00zng...
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