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In article <CHpvCM.CsB@gator.oau.org> larry@gator.oau.org (Larry D Snyder) writes:
>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>I am interested on what your market Dept. may have to say.
>
>you need to remember that SCO includes all licenses -- including Xenix
>licenses in these numbers

I mentioned this in the original article in comp.windows.x.i386unix, it
turns out that Xenix, while still an important product for us, in fact
makes up a much smaller portion of our sales than I thought.

Here's the three tables from the IDC report, The Unix Systems Market,
1992-1997, David Card, September 1993, IDC #7867, that will be of
interest.  It's the data in these tables that marketing used to calculate
that we have 65 per cent of the Unix-for-Intel market, and just under
a quarter of all installed Unix systems (really 22 per cent).

Value* of Worldwide Unix System Shipments by Architecture, 1992

Solaris/Sparc     16.9 per cent
HP-UX/HP-PA       12.2
AIX/Power         10.0
SCO/Intel          6.0
Irix/MIIPS         4.1
Intergraph/Clipper 3.1
NCR Intel          2.8
Ultrix/MIPS        2.7
Unicos/Cray        2.7
Others            39.5

I guess that Solaris/Intel is in `others' and its share is less than 2.7
per cent.  * - I haven't the foggiest what `Value' means in this context.

Worldwide Unix System Shipments by Product, 1992

Solaris 1         17.5
Solaris 2          6.2
SCO Unix and ODT  14.3
SCO Xenix          4.0
HP-UX             10.0
AIX                6.8
Interactive        3.0
Ultrix             3.0
NeXTstep           2.7
Irix               2.7
AT&T SVR4 (Intel)  2.2
Others            27.6

Market Share By Installed UNITS of UNIX Systems

SCO            21.18
SunOS          18.65
HP-UX           8.43
Interactive     4.24
Ultrix          2.5
AIX             4.49
Other Intel     2.94
Other Sys      16.21
Other pro      11.98
Other tot[oa]   8.36

The last three `other' names are truncated in the report, rather than
guess what they are, I just copied out as much as is legible.

The IDC article has a bunch more stuff, lots of analysis, etc.  An
interesting read.

>-- and just about *every* unix type person owns
>a copy of Xenix (since Xenix was just about the only "unix" option available
>years ago).

Larry!  Since you're one of the oldest (no offense intended!) Unix type
people I know, could this mean you are a closet owner of a SCO product?!
-- 
          Stacey Campbell - staceyc@sco.com - uunet!sco!staceyc