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To: GVTucker who wrote (80670)	5/10/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Have seen some wondering regarding NT/Unix/Linux shares. Here is some IDC 98 info that sheds a little light. Haven't seen it posted. Workstations report dated 1/19/99. Estimates workstation units grew 22% in 98 to 2.3M units. Rev declined 3% to $14.8B. These numbers include high end PCs. Overall standings, HWP 21% of units, Dell 16%. In rev Sun leads with 23% then HWP at 22%. Unix workstations declined 6% in units to 519K & declined 16% in rev to 7.9B. Sun leads in unix workstations with 52% of units & 43% Rev. HWP has 16% units, 23% rev. Incidentally, Sun was only unix shipper to actually increase units growing 10%. NT workstations grew 36% in units to 1.7M & 18% in rev to 6.8B. HWP leads with 22.8% units, 21.5% rev. Dell has 22.3% units & 21% in rev. Looking only at branded NT workstations, grew by 98% in units to 776K & 60% in rev to 3.6B. HWP leads with 40% units & 34% rev. Dell has 19% units & rev. Servers grew 8% in rev in 98 compared to 47% in 97 and 50% in 96. CPQ leads with 29% of rev 3.8B, down 4% yr to yr. Dell 13% of rev 1.68B, up 76% IBM 12% of rev 1.5B up 5% High end servers fell 8.3% in rev too 16.3B IBM has 37% of that market at 6.0B Sun < 6% at 907M by grew 108% Amdahl 715M & grew 135% Fujitsu fell steeply to 1.4B NEC fell steeply to 1.1B Hitachi fell to 1.1B Hope together with other info this allows better parsing of numbers. Rich