linuxbios targets ...

[Jeremy Jackson]

What market sector?  Embedded, Beowulf/cluster, ?  This is really
interesting stuff.
Is this figure lost hardware sales?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: linuxbios targets ...


>
> I heard an amazing data point from a company a few days ago, discussing
> the linuxbios issue.
>
> They estimate they have lost $30M just this year due to their inability to
> support linuxbios on their boxes (no, it wasn't IBM, but it could have
> been). Now for the company in question, this is peanuts -- not even 1/1000
> of their gross revenue. But for the salesman for the company in question,
> this is lost opportunity to make targets. Their salesmen are more than a
> little unhappy. But the companies persist in saying "there is no market"
> for LinuxBIOS, the same way they said "there is no market" for Linux, and
> the same way they said "there is no market" for Unix.
>
> It's always amazing to me that small companies in the US, with so much
> more to lose, are so much more willing to take on risk than the big
> companies, who can waste tens of millions in the wink of an eye -- far
> more than it would cost them to field LinuxBIOS.
>
> ron
>
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