Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 24, 2002 02:26 AM
RedHat didn't make money last year, it lost $140 million.
IBM is careful in their opensourceness. They probably only spent less than 10% of that billion dollars on real GPL stuff. They improved their POSIX stuff on AIX (but since those improvements probably works on linux, it's included in the billion dollars.) Eclipse is probably included also. And they are the only people selling mainframes.
Sun is losing customers who switch to linux, they are not making money off hardware division, they are not making money off Java (because IBM and BEA owns that market) and they are not making money off StarOffice.
VA doesn't even sell hardware anymore.
Amazon save only $17 million by switching to linux from unix ---- that's for a company with billions of dollars in revenue. They could have cut that much money from their expense account by not flying in the LearJet. Amazon, like all the shops at your local shopping mall, only makes money in November and December ---- they will again lose money this quarter.
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Re:You can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 24, 2002 02:26 AMIBM is careful in their opensourceness. They probably only spent less than 10% of that billion dollars on real GPL stuff. They improved their POSIX stuff on AIX (but since those improvements probably works on linux, it's included in the billion dollars.) Eclipse is probably included also. And they are the only people selling mainframes.
Sun is losing customers who switch to linux, they are not making money off hardware division, they are not making money off Java (because IBM and BEA owns that market) and they are not making money off StarOffice.
VA doesn't even sell hardware anymore.
Amazon save only $17 million by switching to linux from unix ---- that's for a company with billions of dollars in revenue. They could have cut that much money from their expense account by not flying in the LearJet. Amazon, like all the shops at your local shopping mall, only makes money in November and December ---- they will again lose money this quarter.
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