[plug] [Fwd: OS/2] - found this interesting

[Colin 't Hart]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Jeff Smith, director of IBM's OS/2 business line management, said IBM's
> top 2000 worldwide OS/2 customers generate a revenue of "somewhere
> between $US30 billion and $US40 billion", or about half of the $US80
> billion company's total revenue.
 
> He said its strength is built on a huge worldwide installed base of one
> million IBM servers and five million clients.

Say US$36 billion, divided by 6 million OS/2 boxes = US$6000 to IBM for
each OS/2 box out there.

Maybe these clients want to move to Linux?

One would hope that IBM's Linux support might cause most of these OS/2
users to switch to Linux if/when OS/2 does finally go by the way.

Cheers,

Colin