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From: zmola@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Carl Zmola)
Subject: Re: (Some info) The DOS/MSW meltdown is progressing nicely
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.145427.11025@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:54:27 GMT
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ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>"The Preferred Applications Development Platform"
>according to 432 of the Fortune 1000 corporations
>Survey by Sentry Market Research Survey
>(All percentages)
>                1992            1993

>Unix              18              28
>Mainframe         35              22
>DOS & MSW         24              18
>OS/2               8              17
>Midrange          14              14
                   --              --
                   99              99

>This is from `Corporate Computing', May 1993, page 28.
>It's interesting to see how the greatest vapour-project of the world
>has not been able to make much of a difference here :-)

>World computer market share by broad category (%)
>                                1991            1996
>DOS, Windows, Netware           37.0            40.0
>Unix                            11.6            21.0
>IBM Mainframe                   17.4            14.4
>VAX/VMS                          3.7             2.6
>IBM minis                        4.1             4.0
>Macintosh                        3.6             4.6    *******
>Other                           22.6            13.4
>1996 projections are by IDC
>Source: Unix World, Jan 1993


	Sombody's data is wrong.  Since Mac OS, Finder, Systerm
or whatever you want to call it doesn't appear in the first 
survey, I tend to doubt their results more.  Just because
sombody wrote it doesn't mean its correct.


	carl
	Zmola@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu

