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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).
>
>But if you can proove that about 60% of all ``Intel platform'' computers
>that are *today* (7-Dec-1993) *running* some sort of Unix-derived OS are
>*running* SCO, I will cheerfully recant.

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).

       Founded in 1979, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) is the
    leading developer and supplier of UNIX systems for Intel
    CPU-based computers. According to International Data Corporation,
    SCO accounts for 65 percent of the market for UNIX Systems on
    Intel platforms, as well as approximately one fourth of all UNIX
    Systems installed worldwide. SCO products are available in more
    than 80 countries.

If you want to read more of this type of stuff then check biz.sco.announce
(if you have access to it).  Obviously this data wasn't compiled today
(7-Dec-1993) but I imagine it's fairly recent.

If it's really important to you, maybe I can find someone in marketing
with the report...
-- 
          Stacey Campbell - staceyc@sco.com - uunet!sco!staceyc