Wayne McGuire wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:12:00 -0500 (EST), "Jason K.
> Schechner" <jas@cais.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Wayne McGuire wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> Regarding the competition between Unix and Windows NT: all the latest
> >> stats I have seen suggest that Windows is beginning to make serious
> >> inroads in the traditional Unix market. Bill Gates has managed to make
> >> $50 billion by exploiting the tendency of his competitors to
> >> underestimate Microsoft.
> >
> > Wayne, your stats are about a year or two old. Up until then many
> >companies and particularly the government were converting to Windows NT in
> >large numbers. However, in the last 18 months or so they've gone back to
> >Unix in droves.
>
> My stats are very recent: they appeared on ZDNet
> News last month:
>
> " ... International Data Corp., of Framingham,
> Mass., reported recently that sales of systems
> equipped with NT increased more than 80 percent in
> 1997, while Unix-based workstation sales slipped 7
> percent. More than 1.3 million NT-based
> workstations shipped versus 660,000 Unix-based
> boxes, according to IDC."
>
> --
> Wayne McGuire
> http://www.cybercom.net/~wmcguire
On the other hand, the _total_ dollar value of NT shipments is _smaller_
than even the _increase_ in dollar value of UNIX shipments over the
same period. And that doesn't count all the "NT" boxes that have been
loaded with Linux.
Apropos majordomo, we can reasonably assume that both UNIX and NT will
be around for the near term, and that over the long term nobody has a
clue as to what will end up happening
Cheers, Andy
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