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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10461 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5106 comp.unix.bsd:13061 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5683 biz.sco.general:9162 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!dsinc!cdin-1!icdi10!fr From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Subject: Re: SCO market share Message-ID: <1993Dec9.212520.14343@compu.com> Date: 9 Dec 93 21:25:20 GMT Article-I.D.: compu.1993Dec9.212520.14343 References: <1993Dec03.172422.1339@sco.com> <1993Dec7.160306.14988@rwwa.COM> <1993Dec07.164143.7863@sco.com> <CHpyE0.Arn@telly.on.ca> Organization: CompuData Inc. Lines: 24 evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes: >What's most interesting to me about the 65% number, is not that it's so >high, but that it appears to be falling. I seem to recall it wasn't that >long ago that SCO had about 80% of the market. While that number is nice, >recall that for most of Xenix's early life there was *no* effective >competition. Interactive? Yeah, right. Obviously new entrants into the market will reduce marketshare for the early leaders. >What I'm more interested in knowing than installed base, is what's >selling *now*. What proportion of the Unix-on-Intel systems shipped in >1993 were SCO, or UnixWare, or Solaris, etc? It doesn't look like *any* >of the vendors are interested in giving out these numbers. If IDC had >any guts, *that's* the stat they should be researching. What SCO is presenting is a $200,000,000 annual sales revenue. Devide the numbers and a fairly good OS sales statistical scenario should result. Fred -- "Dreifach ist der Schritt der Zeit: Fred Rump fr@icdi10.compu.com Zo"gern kommt die Zukunft hergezogen, 26 Warren St, Beverly, NJ 08010 Pfeilschnell ist das Jetzt entflogen, 609-386-6846 Ewig still steht die Vergangenheit." (Schiller)