It's strange that Linux was suddenly taken off the list in their stock filing but I think the article comes with some caveats. Android in the mobile would be l

It's strange that Linux was suddenly taken off the list in their stock filing but I think the article comes with some caveats. Android in the mobile would be listed as 'Android' in their SEC filing, since it's not really a traditional Linux distro like RedHat/Ubuntu/Gentoo, SuSe etc etc. Also, even Meego/Maemo, WebOS, Bada are based on the Linux kernel, but there's no common ecosystem among these as there is in desktop/server Linux distros. While they may have only a 15% share in the Web server market, it's a VERY lucrative 15%. Just as people like to remind us that the iPhone captures half the profit in the mobile market with a smaller marketshare, Windows Server/SQL Server/Sharepoint/Exchange etc. are big money as reflected in the revenue numbers, 4.5 billion USD last quarter or 17 billion last year just for the Server and Tools division. It's really hard to calculate how much money is directly made off LAMP/RoR/Python. Maybe they don't see Linux as an immediate short term threat anymore, but that is far from dismissing it completely, as the article projects.