Re:Except for the fact (Score 1)

Vendor lock-in will not necessarily preclude enterprise customers from going with a single supplier for hardware and OS. HP-UX, AIX and Solaris have plenty of folks locked in to HP, IBM and SUN gear. Vendor lock-in WILL slow adoption of "Apple's UNIX" in the server arena. This is because large organizations ARE locked in with Dell, IBM, etc. Regardless of size, IT groups simply don't throw out existing hardware. Instead, they run the same gear until it either falls apart or becomes so painful to maintain that new spend becomes financially attractive. If an organization has a technology refresh plan, the refresh is from the existing vendor. Will revenue GROWTH for Apple UNIX be better than Linux and Windows? It better be considering Apple's server market share. Will Linux or Windows get "buried"? Not in four years. Maybe not in 10. Heck, it will probably be 10 years before I get a new desktop.