Re: OS/2 dead? Yes, it is!

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From: B. Vermo
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5hc6ga$pg0@client3.news.psi.net>,
os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
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|;) You are the delusional one if you think a market of 27 million OS/2
|installations brought you a total sales of about 10,000 for your backup
|software....

The average sales of a DOS game is around 5000 copies. Therefore, there 
must be only half as many DOS users as there are OS/2 users...

I have known Windows programmers who would not dream of selling as many
as 10 000 copies of their application. Almost none of the NT installations
I know about have purchased any backup software, by the way. The small
ones often do it manually with the included program, and the big ones
need one copy on a central server. So I would be surprised if anybody
could sell as many as 10 000 copies of any such software in the NT world.

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From: bv@bigblue.no (B. Vermo)
Subject: Re: OS/2 dead? Yes, it is!
Date: 1997/03/30
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