billwg <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Well, $5M is a lot of money for linux, but some other news seems to
> overpower it:
>
> "That move prompted Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo, which acquired
> IBM's PC unit in May 2005, to announce it would purchase $1.2 billion
> worth of Windows operating systems, to be pre-loaded into Lenovo PCs
> made in China.
Breaking News! Free Operating System Costs Less Than Proprietary!
Red Hat Smaller Than Microsoft!
The fact that Microsoft continues to soak up billions from the
major PC OEMs is hardly news. I'm not sure why it really matters
to you. The great thing about Linux is not the money it makes for
any one corporation, but the money it saves for the many who use
it. China is making its own major moves with Linux (called Red
Flag I think?) so I am surprised that Red Hat is even making the
few mil that they are in that market. Kudos to them.
> China's other top PC makers, including Founder, Tsinghua Tongfang,
> and TCL, have placed software orders with Microsoft totaling $430
> million."
>
> Sort of makes RHAT out to be a witless chump by comparison, eh, royboy?
Red Hat is making around a quarter of a billion dollars a year on
software that anyone can clone for free. Not too shaby for a
'witless chump'. Be sure to let us know when your business is
pulling down similar revenue.
The fact is, there is no possibility of competing head-to-head
with Microsoft in the operating system space using a traditional,
closed source software business model. But linux and open source
open up entirely new opportunities that MS is not structured to
compete with. The things that make Red Hat Linux an attractive
offering are things that Microsoft can't do without a radical
change to their licensing and their entire approach to business.
Thad
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