Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:33:18 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:29:34AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > people sell lots of server. I spent a few minutes in google: world wide > > server sales are $40B at the moment. The overwhelming majority of that > > revenue is small servers. Let's say that Dell has 20% of that market, > > that's $2B/quarter. Now let's chop off the 1-2 CPU systems. I'll bet > > you long long odds that that is 90% of their revenue in the server space. > > Supposing that's right, that's $200M/quarter in big iron sales. Out of > > $8000M/quarter. > > > > I'd love to see data which is different than this but you'll have a tough > > time finding it. More and more companies are looking at the cost of > > big iron and deciding it doesn't make sense to spend $20K/CPU when they > > could be spending $1K/CPU. Look at Google, try selling them some big > > iron. Look at Wall Street - abandoning big iron as fast as they can. > > But we're talking about linux ... and we're talking about profit, not > revenue. I'd guess that 99% of their desktop sales are for Windows. > And I'd guess they make 100 times as much profit on a big server as they > do on a desktop PC.
You are thinking in today's terms. Find the asymptote and project out. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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