In article <Qm%Sg.65$I45.1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Spot the fallacy:
>
> "AMI's research shows that 24 percent of companies with 100 to 249
> employees use Linux, while fewer than 5 percent of companies with
> employment under 10 own or plan to own desktop or server Linux products."
It reminds me of the reports that something like 80% of IBM's revenues
came from customers that used OS/2. That helped quite a few OS/2
advocates who were in denial over the way IBM was mishandling OS/2 to
cling to some hope that IBM could not possibly actually give up on OS/2.
The problem, of course, is that it did not mean that the revenue came
from sales of OS/2 itself. A customer who spent $200 on OS/2 and $20
million on Windows systems from IBM would count as a $20 million
customer who uses OS/2.
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--Tim Smith
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