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Sorry, were you being serious? The real work doesn't back you up.

http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=8 926

...well known factoid that IIS web servers provide the vast majority of the content available on the Internet

The little freeware server you referenced... (I think you said it was "Apache") does have some influence in the server market. That is to say that it dominates it

There have been articles recently citing the 60-80% figure. You can Google as well as I - do it. Some of these articles may even have been on /. Here's one I found on Google in ten seconds.

I'm not arguing FOR the stats, I'm arguing against the notion that you tried to present that 40% of spam is coming from Linux hosts.

That's fucking nonsense, as Linux has barely 3% of the desktop/home market. How the hell does 40% of spam come from Linux in that situation? You said that 40% of spam hitting the honeypot came from Linux hosts. Your implication was 40% of ALL spam comes from Linux hosts.

Now you're claiming it's all from UNIX mail relays. Well, it might be, I wouldn't know. But if any significant percentage - whether it's thirty or sixty - is coming from zombie home PCs, then how is it that the rest is coming from UNIX servers when UNIX and Linux combined have only around fifty percent of the server market?

Or are you saying Windows has no market presence in email transmission - and that it's all UNIX? I didn't think so.

I don't expect an objective discussion about Linux from Windows trolls, either.

Red Hat just signed a new deal with IBM which now makes Red Hat the first and currently only Linux Distro to be PRE-LOADED on ALL of IBM's systemss.

Both Red Hat and SUSE are available when you purchase an IBM system. But only Red Hat can now be PRE-LOADED on the systems out of the box. The deal also allows the customer to purchase Red Hat support at the same time directly from IBM.

This week, that changed with Red Hat becoming the first major Linux distributor to Sign an agreement with IBM to make the operating system available pre-loaded on IBM's POWER based servers.

If you are a manager of a fund heavily invested in MS, or an individual investor, when does this news begin to worry you.

You aren't worried yet?

At least one analyst that has carefully taken apart the earnings statements and filings of ms sees the end of the earnings boost to licensing 6.0, and sees lower earnings and declining market share ahead. There are too many stories to link or quote them all, but here are a few you should look at (you'll need to google for them, I save the stories but I rarely go back and edit the source to include the original link, and the stories themselves don't usually do it):

Linux to Overtake Unix, Leapfrog Windows, Analyst Says, look at bzmedia's site, Claybrook wrote it, July 15, 03, bzmedia.com, or SD Times, the title is SD Times.

Small Businesses Like Linux Prices, Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service (PCWorld) Thursday, July 17, 2003

Nothing can stop Linux now, says IDC By Peter Williams [13-06-2003] VNUNet Not a direct link, need to find the article.

Microsoft Feels the Linux Heat:

June 9, 2003 By Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. is starting to react more aggressively to the Linux and open-source threat, last week slashing the price of its SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition by $450, to $49.

The second major price cut in as many weeks followed the Redmond, Wash., company's decision to reduce the retail price of Office XP by 15 percent.

For the first time, Microsoft officials are admitting that Linux is affecting the way the company prices products. Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the Server Platform Division, told eWEEK at the Tech Ed conference here last week that Linux factored into Microsoft's decision to cut the price of its SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, effective Aug. 1.

The Penguin heats up the enterprise applications space:

Apparently, Linux is the fastest growing of all operating systems, with a cumulative annual growth rate of 34%. In so doing, it is taking away market share from both Windows and Unix. According to IBM, Microsoft will never again achieve the annual growth rate of 40% for Windows that it previously enjoyed. But what about software and applications? Here, Linux is playing catch-up, with Linux software growing at an annual rate of 65%.

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SAP has been supporting Linux for four years now and has more than 1,000 customers, both large and small, using Linux. PeopleSoft announced recently that it is porting all of its 170 enterprise applications over to Linux in its next upgrade. Oracle currently has a large marketing campaign underway in support of Linux products and is certifying and supporting its 9i database product on the China-based Red Flag Linux operating system. It has announced that it will soon make its 9i application server and both collaboration and e-business suites available on Linux. And a host of other vendors have also started to support Linux, including mid-tier vendors such as Sage.

Figures given by IBM show that Linux is resonating with customers as well. Handy states that Wall Street firms have taken to Linux in droves, with such companies as Morgan Stanley, Citibank, eTrade, Merrill Lynch and the New York Stock Exchange using it. In Europe, financial services firms such as HSBC and Deutsche Bank are deploying Linux, and it is also making inroads into government and retail verticals.

In terms of geographies, Europe is still ahead of the US in terms of take-up, although there has been a noticeable increase in implementations in the US in the past couple of years, from the Wall Street companies mentioned above on the East Coast to Hollywood on the West. In Europe, Linux has the largest penetration in Germany in terms of overall IT spending - but Handy points ou

Eh, open relays are soooo 20th century. :) Actually most open relays today are either blocked or closed, and newly installed MTAs are secure against third-party relaying by default, so this spam method is dying out. Most spam today is sent either directly to the receiving MTA, through open proxies, or through formmail.pl and similar exploits.

It seems that Novell now admits that it has transfered the Unix copyright to SCO according to this article.

They still claim to own the patents so the SCO case appears to be solely about the Unix copyrights.

http://www.it-analysis.com/00-04-14-3.html

Is it a sign that Microsoft is now considering Linux?