That article is comparing apples to not-quite apples. To say that MS makes as much money in 1 day as Red Hat does in 1 Quarter is asinine. *Of Course* a multi-national corporation is going to blow a niche-market company out of the water in quarterly revenues! That doesn't demean the product of the smaller company in any way, shape, or form.
And what revenues is it comparing? If you were to compare MS's net income based solely off of OS sales with Red Hat's, then you've got a better comparison. As it stands, Redmond's billions in revenue is coming in from many different directions: OS, Software, Gaming, Peripherals, etc. Red Hat's revenue is from OS and Support sales.
And for the record: Yes, I use Linux at home, exclusively. No, I don't think Windows/MS is going anywhere anytime soon.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nate @ May 3rd 2007 2:23PM
@ mattbrown:
That article is comparing apples to not-quite apples. To say that MS makes as much money in 1 day as Red Hat does in 1 Quarter is asinine. *Of Course* a multi-national corporation is going to blow a niche-market company out of the water in quarterly revenues! That doesn't demean the product of the smaller company in any way, shape, or form.
And what revenues is it comparing? If you were to compare MS's net income based solely off of OS sales with Red Hat's, then you've got a better comparison. As it stands, Redmond's billions in revenue is coming in from many different directions: OS, Software, Gaming, Peripherals, etc. Red Hat's revenue is from OS and Support sales.
And for the record: Yes, I use Linux at home, exclusively. No, I don't think Windows/MS is going anywhere anytime soon.