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To: Eli Lauris who wrote (5597)	1/20/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: Jim Davison	Respond to of 14451

Anybody know the number for the conference call? Thanks --JD

To: Eli Lauris who wrote (5597)	1/20/1999 4:40:00 AM
From: Edward Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Eli Lauris wrote: >It still continues to have great IRIX products in the server and >HPC markets. ... NT is not scalable or robust enough for servers >at this time I agree - the Origins are great machines. I am hoping that the large UNIX vendors will have the sense to do all they can to prevent NT ever becoming scalable and robust enough. >while UNIX workstation market is declinining It has been for several years, but recently there has been a turnaround. To quote from HPCwire: "A fifty-two percent increase in workstation sales by Sun Microsystems, Inc. helped to drive a nearly 15 percent growth in the UNIX workstation market in the third quarter of 1998 (Q398), according to a report recently released by Dataquest. Data released in the report indicates that gains in UNIX market share have come at the expense of Microsoft Windows NT in recent quarters." "Up 14.6 percent over the same quarter a year ago, UNIX sales accounted for 157,067 units, or 46.9 percent of the total workstation market in Q398. Dataquest's Advanced Desktop and Workstations Quarterly Statistics Q398 report also shows that UNIX workstation revenues now account for 67.4 percent of the total workstation market" Obviously, these statistics are just for one quarter. I don't have the numbers on how well UNIX did in the other quarters of 98. The 4th quarter's results would be particularly interesting. I am guessing that these statistics don't include Linux. SGI's new NT machines should enable them to take a big slice of a large and important market. But I am also hoping that SGI will in the very near future launch a big push of IRIX workstations, not just at the mid- to high-end, where SGI already does very well (esp. Onyx2) but at the low-end (sub-$10000) as well. Ed