To: sheila rothstein who wrote (1106 ) 6/27/1999 12:24:00 AM From: David Colvin Respond to
Sheila,So, with 25 million zips, over 100 million zip disk have been sold. As you move up to 32 million zips, a 22% increase, toward the year's end, you'd pre-suppose that the sales of disks would increase to at least 135 million (moving from 4 disks per drive to 4.2 per drive), a 35% increase - the increase in the ratio of zip disks to zip drives was to substantially widen over time. What they discovered is that this number is widening slower than originally thought - due, as stated before, to the spreading of the bell curve relative to the type of user; nevertheless the increase in zip disks per drive is continuing to occur, but at a slower pace than some analysts had originally presupposed. So, instead of the tie ratio going from 2 to 4 to 8 to 10 disks per drive, it has gone from 2 to 3 to 4 to 5, and so on. increasing, but not as fast as some analysts wanted; nevertheless, fast enough to keep IOM in the black if they can get their labor picture in order relative to the jaz.100 million zip disk figure in the quote above since they passed 100 million zip disks a long time ago? 100 million would make the current tie ratio only 4 to 1, whereas the real current ratio is 6 to 1 (150/25).
