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To: Stormweaver who wrote (18000)	7/20/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Those numbers don't necessarily (probably don't) reflect installed base. I think installed base is more meaningful if you're trying to determine "% ownership of the desktop." Or do only new desktops count in your book? JMHO.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (18000)	7/21/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: C David White	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

It's rather beside the point to talk about % of cpu's running a given OS and restricting the field to desktop computers. If you spread the field either way -- say to handheld devices (or embedded devices) or to servers the numbers are changed vastly. Similarly, processor count may not be as meaningful as, say, transaction count or FLOPS per OS. As my Pa says, "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." No offense, not calling anyone a liar -- just pointing out that the statistics are only useful if they are chosen carefully. I guess I'm a little confused about all the emphasis on Unix's (lack of) presence in a market is wasn't designed to penetrate -- such penetration need not be an element of a successful strategy for SUNW. Indeed, microjava's introduction (and CE's obvious failure -- they have to BUY customers like AT&T) in the appliance arena are, IMO, way more significant for SUNW and MSFT (good for SUNW, bad for MSFT).