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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (8524)2/15/1998 7:35:00 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (4) of 213177
 
There is only small portion of NT (4%-5%) used in enterprise when compared to Sun's Solaris, HP/UX, and IBM/AIX.

This does not match what I heard. People have switched in droves to NT.

I know of a company that sells multiplatform software, and they get to see these trends ahead of everybody else. They saw a big decline on Alphas before the market had even noticed the trend. Similarly with NT: eighteen months ago, you could count NT accounts with the fingers of one hand. Since then the proportion of UNIX to NT accounts has moved to somewhere 50-50.

One should remember that legacy systems stay up and running and that skews the figures. I'd venture to say that sales of new enterprise systems are 30-50% NT. But since there is such a large installed UNIX base it migth well be that they are only a 5% of enterprise installations, giving a false sense of security to UNIX vendors.

IMHO, Unix vendors blew it when they failed to properly integrate a GUI and other user friendly features to the system (their latest CDEsperate effort not withstanding :-).

Even the simplest tasks, such as adding a new user, required executing a sequence of arcane commands in precise order. SUN was the first to provide built-in scripts for similar tasks in 1993 or thereabouts with their Solaris system.
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