[NCLUG] Microsoft Linux Compete Webcast

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:26:39PM +0000, Daniel Miles wrote:
> It seems pretty rediculous to me that they're even worrying about
> it... Windows is *far* outselling linux and I don't see that trend
> changing any time soon.

you're looking at desktop sales, not the vastly more profitable server
sales.  consider what the profit to microsoft would be if google switched
to windows from linux.  last figures i remember were 8000 machines in their
compute farm, at $1000 for advanced server or whatever they're calling it
these days.  even microsoft cares about the odd $8 million here or there.

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