funny you didn't update for 1997. We are in 1998 now, aren't we? Do us all a favor and find the numbers for 1997 and the projections for 1998 while you're at it. I'll give you a little help with the workstations. I dare you to post what you find. I see right through you and I'm not taken in by your trickery.
Don't you remember this one:
HP passes Sun in workstations
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
January 28, 1998, 10:15 p.m. PT
When both Unix and NT workstations are counted together, Hewlett Packard surpassed Sun Microsystems to become the No.1 workstation vendor in 1997, according to an upcoming report from International Data Corporation (IDC).
The study sheds additional light on a trend that has been growing all year, namely that the sales of workstations based on the Windows NT operating system are growing rapidly while sales of Unix desktops are declining. This year, some predict NT units could outsell Unix counterparts by three to one.
Now why don't you go back to the drawing board and find an article with some UP TO DATE INFORMATION.
After all, doesn't the "w" in sunw stand for workstation?
It took me one minute to find the server data for 1997. Just as I thought.
Windows NT server market grows
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
January 27, 1998, 6:15 p.m. PT
Microsoft NT server broke away from the rest of the server operating environment pack in 1997 with an 80 percent growth in unit sales over the previous year.
Unix-based environments saw a modest 15 percent growth, according to preliminary results of a report from IDC, about the same rate of growth it had between 1995 and 1996.
NT experienced most of its growth in the so called departmental servers serving 20 to 50 people, according to IDC research manager Jean Bozman.
"Unix will continue to grow," said Bozman. "Where Unix really shines is in the areas of running large corporate databases" and other high-end corporate computing technologies such as multiprocessor servers, she said, noting that NT 5.0 Enterprise edition is expected to better address this market than NT 4.0.
IBM OS/2 and Novell NetWare shipments declined in 1997, by 34.5 percent and 9.4 percent, respectively.
The overall market grew 10.8 percent from 1996 to 1997, according to the results, which is less than half the rate of growth from 1995 to 1996. 1996 saw an unusually high demand because of the rapid growth in sale for Internet servers.
Microsoft shipped 1.3 million units in 1997, up from 732,000 in 1996 and 393,000 in 1995. Unix shipments totaled 717,000, NetWare shipments totaled 900,000, and IBM shipped OS/2 226,000 units.
IDC's full report for 1997 will be ready in the spring.
Are you any good in math? Plot this trend out on a chart for ten years and tell me what happens to market shares? Or are you going to tell me that UNIX will reverse this landslide and start to take share from NT? Just like OS/2 and Netware did, right?
Now you understand why sunw is down 17% from its high, and msft will split the stock in two weeks. |
