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In article <DCL9rv.8yA@world.std.com> jimf@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
>Bill Moyer <ttk@rahul.net> writes:
>>In article <DCHv1q.9F8@world.std.com>, jim frost <jimf@world.std.com> wrote:
>>>edodge@teleport.com (Edward Dodge) writes:

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>Whether or not NT has been selling well depends on what you think its
>intended market to be.  Certainly it's fallen flat as a mass-market
>desktop system, but in my opinion it was never intended to be such.
>The feature set is all wrong.  If you consider it to be a UNIX
>workstation competitor, as I do, it's been doing quite well: last year

When I think of UNIX "workstations" I think RISC.  Is that just me?
In my experience I've never seen NT on a non-intel chip.  When
I'm running a "serious" simulation I'm not going to do it on
an intel box.  I'm very interested in seeing some sales figures
of non-intel NT sales.  All of the NT users that I know personally
are using it on intel boxes simply because they want something
better than win3.1 and their MIS losers don't like OS/2. 
Anybody I know doing serious number crunching is still using
a UNIX RISC box, not an NT RISC box.

>it had more than double the sales rate of the most popular UNIX
>variant!  Even if its sales rate remains flat from 1994 it will match
>the installed base of the second largest UNIX variant this year.  Best
>available information indicates that 1995 sales will be significantly
>better than 1994, though, so most likely NT's installed base will

>greatly exceed that of *any* individual UNIX variant by the end of
>this year.

But when comparing them you're going to group all NT sales and not
separate the various NT ports?  Then be sure to add in the Solaris x86
users into the Solaris count.

Ravi
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