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Posted May 29, 2004 16:24 UTC (Sat) by jae (guest, #2369)
In reply to: (silicon.no.brain) by neoprene
Parent article: Oracle to be Linux shop by end of year (silicon.com)

35.1% of $11.8e9 or of units sold?

Not to mention the fact that you need one copy of, say, Debian, for 20 servers, while you need 20 copies of MS Windows 200x. And you don't need to pay even for that one copy if you fetch it off the net, so, it won't show up in *any* statistic.

Just thought I'd add the bleeding obvious...


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Posted May 29, 2004 19:13 UTC (Sat) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link]

It could also be that you need more Windows servers than other OS servers to do the same task reliably, says I, tongue in cheek.

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