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Article #1967Re: SCO market share
From: Mark A. Davis
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 13:15
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 13:15
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hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <1993Dec07.164143.7863@sco.com> staceyc@socoban.sco.com (Stacey Campbell) writes: >>In article <1993Dec7.160306.14988@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes: >>>In article <1993Dec03.172422.1339@sco.com>, >>> staceyc@socoban.sco.com (Stacey Campbell) writes: >>>| Since SCO Unix is installed on about 60 per cent of all Unix-for-Intel >>>| platforms... >>> >>>I'd like to see the proof for this claim. I think it is bogus, unless >>>you restrict the term ``Unix-for-intel'' so that it only applies to SCO >>>and SCO-look-alikes (whatever that may mean). >>> >>I of course can't prove anything and may be a victim of my own >>company's propaganda, but here's something SCO tacks on to the end >>of press releases. It quotes IDC numbers, i.e. an independent >>source, and as you can see I got them wrong, we in fact have a bigger >>market share than I thought (the terms `accounts for 65 percent of the >>market' and licenses installed may or may not be two different things). >I am interested on what your market Dept. may have to say. >Also, I am very interested on any Linux or 386bsd figures that they >may have. I think the numbers Stacey/SCO are quoting are for COMMERCIAL Unix systems...... -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Sys.Administrator| Computer Services | mark@taylor.wyvern.com .uucp | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f72b0,39c3f416b3ff0b47 X-Google-Attributes: gidf72b0,public X-Google-Thread: 100cc1,39c3f416b3ff0b47 X-Google-Attributes: gid100cc1,public X-Google-Thread: 1122ea,39c3f416b3ff0b47 X-Google-Attributes: gid1122ea,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-12-09 04:09:09 PST Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!wyvern!taylor.wyvern.com!mark From: mark@taylor.wyvern.com (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: SCO market share Organization: Lake Taylor Hospital Computer Services Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 13:15:47 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec08.131547.19757@taylor.wyvern.com> References: <1993Dec03.172422.1339@sco.com> <1993Dec7.160306.14988@rwwa.COM> <1993Dec07.164143.7863@sco.com> <hastyCHp81t.HGF@netcom.com> Lines: 31