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Re: SCO market share

#1967
From: Mark A. Davis
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......
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