Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:53:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <199710080453.WAA00697@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199710072100.RAA15962@hda.hda.com> References: <199710072100.RAA15962@hda.hda.com>
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Peter Dufault writes:
> ----- Forwarded message from John C Green Jr -----
>
> Can anyone comment on this that was sent to the private
> alliant-alumni list in the wake of the SGI loss and Dec's
> apparent readiness to dump Alpha:
>
> > Unix has stalled with an install rate of under 1 Million
> > boxes per year; it was as many as 720K boxes in 1993. Wintel
> > will ship about 83 Million this year up substantially from
> > last year. Windows/NT overtook all Unixes combined several
> > quarters ago in boxes shipped.
>
> I'll grant the boxes shipped part, since the Internet OS's don't
> ship in boxes.
>
> Are there any remotely hard numbers about FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> OpenBSD and Linux?
Are there any remotely hard numbers about Solaris (any version), HP/UX,
AIX, or even WinNT? Nope? Pretty hard to tell if the market has
stalled, isn't it?
Think this guy included *BSD, Linux, or even SCO shipments? Or was he
just counting "boxes" from the big UNIX guys? And, exactly what is
UNIX? Should the millions of licenses for VxWorks, QNX, LynxOS, and
other UNIX-like embedded systems count?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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