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Linux wins big over Microsoft in Munich (USA Today)Linux wins big over Microsoft in Munich (USA Today)Posted Jul 15, 2003 16:37 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: Linux wins big over Microsoft in Munich (USA Today) Two things I found interesting: despite what Gates said, MicroSoft did have a lower up-front cost in this case, and IBM-SuSE won the contract based primarily on long-term strategy. Also, the chart of companies selling Linux is impressive. IBM has $700 million, while the "others" category, with only companies getting less than about $25 million, has $800 million. This seems to me to be a good insight into Open Source economics; there are a couple of big names in a given space, and they make more in the space than anybody else by an order of magnitude, but there is still more total benefit to people who aren't big names. It seems to me to reflect the way Apache was developed jointly by people who didn't want to make money selling it but to make money using it.
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