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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (75621)	3/6/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jeff, re: "Is is a good wag to assume that U.S. domestic is roughly 50% of world deployment (PC and nets)?" Two statistics I seem to remember. There are 1.1 PC's per desk worker in the work place. About half the homes have a PC. So I estimate ~125 - 150 Million PC's in the US. (Note Z-D estimated ~120 million mid ‘98). Based on Intelliquests estimate of 73 million connected PC's we have about half the US PCs connected. This represents 41% of estimated W/W connected PCs of 175 million. I don't know what the average life of a PC is, but if I guess five years, I get ~400 million PCs in use W/W. (An average of 80 million units/yr). I still am surprised by these numbers, but now that I'm interested I'll keep looking. ;-) Gene