Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:59:56 -0700

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:43:17PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> If you are looking for competing with M$ you should call up one of the linux
> distributors and merge with them. It does not really look like RH or SuSE do
> all that bad (to name examples). And I do believe they could earn a lot more
> bucks if (even) more focus is put on consulting.

Red Hat: $1B market cap (not bad), $25M/quarter revenues, running at a loss.
Microsoft: $275B market cap, $7.8B/quarter revenues, running at $2.7B/quarter
profit.

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