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Re: Sales figures on workstation vendors?

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:31
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rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>	Can anyone give me (or tell me where I might find) the figures
>	on workstations sold for Sun, HP, IBM, NeXT, Dec and Data General?

Sorry, does not quite address your question, but this is one of the
few bits of data I have:

From Unix World, Jan 1993

World computer market share (%)
-------------------------------

                                1991            1996

DOS, Windows, Netware           37.0            40.0
Unix                            11.6            21.0
IBM Mainframe                   17.4            14.4
VAX/VMS                          3.7             2.6
IBM minis                        4.1             4.0
Macintosh                        3.6             4.6
Other                           22.6            13.4

Totally                         $155e9

1996 projections are by IDC


1993 Unix hardware sales
------------------------

                        Units           $billion        installed-base

Workstations            876k            14.1            2.755e6
Midrange                583k             7.4            0.931e6
Large-scale             223              1.8            673
PC Unix                 425k             0.6            1.813e6

Total                   1.46e6          23.9e9          6.535e6

Source: ITG
(Interesting to note $24 billion is sortof consistent with the previous
table).
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
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