Some data to mine:
dailynews.yahoo.com
"Windows NT held the lead in unit shipments, with 2.1 million copies, or 38 percent of the market. That number grew from 1.7 million in 1998, but the market share of 38 percent stayed the same. Windows revenue rose from $1.3 billion in 1998 to $1.7 billion in 1999.
Unix unit shipments dropped from 19 percent of the market in 1998 to 15 percent in 1999, with about 810,000 shipments. Netware dropped from 23 percent in 1998 to 19 percent.
Linux is the core operating system software that controls a computer and is designed to work like Unix. It competes not only with Microsoft Windows, but also with NetWare and the various flavors of Unix, such as IBM's AIX, Compaq's Tru64 Unix, Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Santa Cruz Operation's UnixWare, among others."
Linux is eating into the Unix market, whilst NT holds its share. And that is right at the end of the lifecycle of the current NT product. Windows 2000 sales on servers will be awesome. IA64 sales will be awesome.
"The versions of Unix combined may make up less than a sixth of the market, but they bring in more than half the revenue"
Corporates are crying out for cheaper alternatives to Solaris. They already use Wintel & Solaris, but the proportion that is Solaris is set to diminish. Solaris on IA64 will sell well but this revenue model will not be as successful for Sun who is used to making its customers pay through the nose. |
