[sambeau]

Before we get into - "Oh not this again!" and "Duh! but Linux Won!" and "Microkernels are still a better design"...

Remember, today's lucky 10,000...

http://xkcd.com/1053/

Actually, I always enjoy reading this whenever it comes up. I was just about to start a university computing science degree course at this time and was reading Tanenbaum in preparation. This was a debate that was alive for years throughout the computing community I was part of.

In the end reality came down to what always wins in computing (and in life too).

  Running code beats design. Design is always 'better'.

[jacquesm]

There's a variation to that. Unless your company is a very successful multinational chances are that a stranger picked at random has not heard about your product. Makes you think a little longer about terms such as 'market saturation', most products don't even go near there.