[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Bob Jacobsen]

At 4:10 PM +0000 12/10/02, Robin Darby wrote:
>On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:52  pm, Michael Bigley wrote:
>>According to Jobs, Apple is the largest distributor of Unix systems 
>>(OSX), though combined, I am sure they outpace Apple.  But as far 
>>as Unix on the desktop, well, they still haven't decided on a GUI 
>>yet ;-)
>>--
>
>Then he's just talking arse (Job's that is). Apple may be the 
>biggest distributor of "new systems with a *nix pre-installed", but 
>then thats only really between Apple and Sun (and HP up until last 
>year?). Redhat & co. don't make computers (ydl do - but they don't 
>make stupid statements (they do however make cool systems)).

RedHat's last full-year revenues were $79M. Their most recent 
reported quarter was $19.5M.

On a financial basis (total dollars) Apple sold more Unix installs in 
their best single day than Red Hat does in three months.  That's not 
counting the ones that are shipped with hardware!

Bob
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