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As the academic staff member in charge of our single under 
equipped UNIX laboratory within the Faculty of Business at the 
Footscray Campus of Victoria University of Technology, I am 
interested in finding out from the net:


1.   If anyone knows of readily available studies, forecasts or 
     surveys that attempt to predict the growth of the use of 
     UNIX within the BUSINESS COMMUNITY in Australia and 
     preferably with these figures broken down on a state by 
     state basis?


2.   If the answer to the above is no then I would be interested 
     in peoples feelings, opinions etc as to the potential growth 
     (for the next three years) in Australia and in particular 
     Victoria in the use of:

          a.   UNIX (any version).

          b.   GUI's such as X Windows.

          c.   UNIX based workstations.

     within the business community.

3.   What particular applications do people see as being 
     particularly suited to a UNIX environment?


My reasons for asking this is that I would like some supporting 
data for a submission that I am putting together for the 
upgrading of our UNIX facility and the expansion of our course to 
include more UNIX experience for our undergraduate students. 

I will fully credit anyone who can supply hard data about the 
above and am quite willing to share the results of this fairly 
informal survey with anyone who expresses interest. Anyone who 
would like to collaborate in a more detailed survey should also 
contact me.

Thanking you in anticipation,

Andrew Wenn.

awenn@matilda.vut.edu.au