You don't seem to be addressing my point about Mac OS X. You would not describe all of these buyers as "geeks", would you?

If an OS X clone became available for Intel boxes such that purchases of the OS had no idea they were using Unix, would your characterization apply?

Peter



>I believe Unix has staying power as an operating system "for geeks, by geeks". I've worked in quite a few places over the last several years. And Unix was in several of them. But always in the same role. As the operating system that Oracle was installed on.
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>So I would never say that Unix is going away. But I think it only has a role in the Enterprise, and one that is not major in terms of numbers, anyways
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>PF

>>But would you admit that Unix (aka Linux etc.) around for 31 years has staying power. Considering that every new OS X Mac user is also using Unix, the number of Unix users is probably growing faster than ever right now. I would wager that the Unix slice of the OS pie is growing.