[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

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In article <4sZFONlybqyq at eisner.encompasserve.org>, cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
>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?

Piles of shit.

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