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

First of all, Hi Larry.  It's been a while since you've posted on here.  I thought you
swore never to post here again :-).

Also, what's wrong with counting the Xenix licenses?  Without Xenix, we probably
wouldn't have such a strong desktop UNIX market as we have today.  The reason that
Xenix was the only un*x option available is because all the big players had written
off the possibility of a market on the desktop.  Look at them now!!  What a mess!
Everybody is now madly scrabbling away for a market share, including all those SVR4
versions, while SCO have kept cool, pedalled slowly, and ensured that the most commonly
used words that people describe their product with are words like "solid", "stable",
"reliable" and "large installed base".

BTW.  It would also be very interesting to see the volume of licenses sold in 1993 by
all the desktop unix vendors.  I'd say that SCO is at No. 1, with a long gap to No. 2.

 
Regards,
 
Brian.
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