Re: Merced makes things interesting, eh?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:50:31 +0100 (BST)


> around like they use to. The clients are also not as willing to pay
> the high price for "software maintainance".
>
> They are moving more to selling based on hardware features and
> less on the OS features.

Not that unrealistic. Digital for example understood this way before most
people did. You wanted an OSless Vax they sold you one. Its one of the
reasons so many vaxen got sold

Get the yearly reports of any big unix vendor and see how many make a profit
on their OS sales as opposed to the other parts of the business.

Alan

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