[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[George Cornelius]

In article <a9hkv6Fq36U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> Ummmm..  Apple is selling Unix, no matter how hard they try to deny it.
> And, I saw that same discussion on the business news this morning.  Apple
> is only larger than Microsoft was if you compare them as if there is no
> difference in the value of a dollar.  If you make the necessary allowances

Reminds me of a joke,

 "What's the difference between a duck?"

> for that Microsoft still comes out wayu ahead (almost 100%, I think it
> was....)

I assume you are talking about revenue and not market capitalization.
Apple's market cap is through the roof - and I don't believe Microsoft is
in the running.

Going back to revenue, though, remember that Apple markets appliances
first.  Its secondary income is from computers, computers which have
historically been a lot closer to being appliances than those things
that run Windows.  And I suspect a miniscule portion of their income
is from software, unless they are somehow splitting OS/X out as a
separate line item on every computer sold.

So it's comparing apples and er.. er.. whatever they are - lumps of
coal?

George

[I've never owned an Apple product, other than maybe a used CDROM
or the like]