"trying to eke sales out of a Unix market that shrank 18.7 percent from $25.3 billion in 2001 to $20.6 billion in 2000."
Translation:
1) I need a proofreader.
2) What I really mean is an 18% year on year drop from 2000 to 2001.
3) I am trying to hint that Unix sales are falling. ( Maybe some competing operating system is taking over... )
Of course, this is not the whole story. The dotcom crash hit everyone, not just the Unix vendors ( ask Compaq, HP, IBM how there PC sales went. Ask Dell for that matter )
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"trying to eke sales out of a Unix market that shrank 18.7 percent from $25.3 billion in 2001 to $20.6 billion in 2000."
Translation:
1) I need a proofreader.
2) What I really mean is an 18% year on year drop from 2000 to 2001.
3) I am trying to hint that Unix sales are falling. ( Maybe some competing operating system is taking over... )
Of course, this is not the whole story. The dotcom crash hit everyone, not just the Unix vendors ( ask Compaq, HP, IBM how there PC sales went. Ask Dell for that matter )