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To: BILL CHOW who wrote (88)11/17/1996 12:27:00 AM
From: Dan Guinan   of 524
 
<For those who was looking for my Quote. Here it is. I was wrong about the source. It is Dataquest not IDC. It is dated April 1995. The first Pie chart showed Unix Installed base at 16% and Windows NT at 13% for the year 1994. The second chart is for year 1999 installed base. Windows NT 81%, and Unix 4%!>

Post a URL where we can look at these stats ourselves. Are these statistics for the servers used within MSFT, on the Internet, as Workstations, in a particular industry, overall? Your message doesn't relay any information without some qualifications, including the projected reasoning for the shift. Also, if in 1995, UNIX had 16% and Windows NT had 13% (very funy numbers, Bill), who had the other 71%??

<There are no less than 4 Unix operating system.>

There are? What are they? It seems to me that there are dozens (if not hundreds) of varieties of UNIX.

<The software suppliers are tired of this. Unix is not as "Open" as they led you to believ.>

They are? What suppliers, exactly? Don't they just re-compile under the other UNIX and sell for much higher margins than PC based products? Isn't it to their advantage to keep doing this?

UNIX isn't as "Open" as who led who to believe? Do you know what "Open" means? Do you think NT is open? Do other vendors have NT compatible O/S's that they sell to support this Open philosophy? Is the NT file system open? How about security? GUI? Networking? Anything at all?

Bill, basically I would like to know, "What the hell are you talking about?"

-Dan
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