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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: (Some info) The DOS/MSW meltdown is progressing nicely
Date: 30 Apr 1993 01:12:31 -0700
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"The Preferred Applications Development Platform"
according to 432 of the Fortune 1000 corporations
Survey by Sentry Market Research Survey
(All percentages)

                1992            1993

Unix              18              28
Mainframe         35              22
DOS & MSW         24              18
OS/2               8              17
Midrange          14              14

This is from `Corporate Computing', May 1993, page 28.
It's interesting to see how the greatest vapour-project of the world
has not been able to make much of a difference here :-)

Before you think it's a interesting rag, they have this incredibly
incompetent article/opinion piece by someone named Robert Ziff which
has preposturous statements like "Sun has sold around 300
multiprocessing servers"!!!!!!  (In that case USC has around 4% of all
Sun MP servers on earth :-)) He is off by a factor of 50? 100?  
I thought of sending them a "factual disaster" email message; they have
a column titled "how to contact us" but being silly PCheads they seem
to have never heard of the Internet.

These may also be of interest:

World computer market share by broad category (%)

                                1991            1996

DOS, Windows, Netware           37.0            40.0
Unix                            11.6            21.0
IBM Mainframe                   17.4            14.4
VAX/VMS                          3.7             2.6
IBM minis                        4.1             4.0
Macintosh                        3.6             4.6
Other                           22.6            13.4

Totally                 $155 billion

1996 projections are by IDC
Source: Unix World, Jan 1993



1993 Unix hardware sales by category

                             $billion        installed-base

Workstations                 14.1            3 million
Midrange                      7.4            1 million
Large-scale                   1.8
PC Unix                       0.6            2 million

Total                        23.9
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu