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Re: Something nice to read
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, guy keren wrote:
>
>On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
>> >"Linux Commercial Shipments Will Increase at a Four-Year Rate of 25%"
>>
>> I know that this is interesting but let's see 25% (impressing) per four
>> years, reported to ONE year, and plot that against commercial shipments
>> of/for other platforms, yes ? Just to keep seeing the woods while looking
>> at the trees.
>
>i think they refered to "25% per year, on each of the coming 4 years".
>that is, 25% on 1999, 25% on 2000, 25% on 2001 and 25% on 2002. if you
>read IDC's reports (or rather, quotes of their reports, i never read any
>of their full commercial reports) you'll see that all 'rates' are yearly,
>unless explicitly stated otherwise.
imho the line above clearly is 'stated otherwise'. I'm very for the 25%
yearly, but I want to see it happen...
Peter