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In article <XCbPzgRDAclW091yn@bigblue.no>, B. Vermo <bv@bigblue.no> wrote:
>In article <5hc6ga$pg0@client3.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>|
>|;) 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...

Let's compare apples and aplles.  His program is not a game, it is a
backup program.  It is probably the highesty selling backup program as
well.  Let's compare it with Sytos for DOS or similar....

>
>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.

Now why shift from DOS games skipping Windows, to Windows NT backup
programs?  Because it would be more convenient to compare apples and
oranges?  What happened to Windows based backup programs that would run
under NT as well?

Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

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