[luau] Excuse me, they said billion, not million - with a "B"???

[Warren Togami]

kilauea wrote:
> CBS Market Watch reported 1-15-04
> "...H-P also disclosed that it's logged revenue of more than $2.5 
> billion in fiscal 2003 from its Linux product and service offerings."
> 
> Real nurds would just look over the tops of their glasses and comment 
> "10 to the 9th, not a particularly large number".
> 
> Well for someone who has been using Linux since '96, it seems like a 
> very large number indeed.
> 
> Aloha from the Garden Isle
> Kilauea

Supposedly IBM has been making "billions" in revenue due to their Linux 
business for the past few years.  Of course this isn't selling Linux 
directly, but hardware that runs Linux, and the service & support in 
custom software and integration on that platform.

Warren