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Thursday, December 15th, 2005

50% of Customers Think HP Will Exit UNIX Market

I read everything Ashlee Vance at El Reg writes. I was just reading this just posted story on UNIX vendor preferences (or non-preferences), and noticed this line:

The GCG study notes that an astonishing 50 per cent of customers surveyed think HP will exit the Unix market in the coming years.

Wow… either we can expect a major shift from HP or they are not selling the Itanium story to customers well. This would probably give Linux a boost though – as Linux incorporates more and more mainframe and UNIX features a slimmer UNIX market is not unexpected. And yet somehow SCO keeps finding more funding… hmmm….