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From: timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle)
Subject: Re: SCO market share
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 00:41:20 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Dec09.004120.13518@sco.com>
Keywords: share and share alike
References: <1993Dec7.160306.14988@rwwa.COM> <1993Dec07.164143.7863@sco.com> <CHpyE0.Arn@telly.on.ca>
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In article <CHpyE0.Arn@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) world:
} [...]
} 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.
Evan, I doubt that IDC lacks the "guts" to report these numbers--their whole
business is based on providing this sort of impartial and objective data.
1993 is not quite over as yet, and IDC will need a little time before they
can compile and publish their numbers for this year. But I'm sure they are
researching those stats.
But if the trade rag reports of UnixWare shipments are to be believed, SCO
may very well be quite interested in giving out those numbers. ;^)
We shall see. To my mind a more interesting breakdown will be the server
to desktop ratio of the licenses--otherwise we compare apples to oranges,
no?
Regards,
Tim
--
The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.
--Coleridge