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From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: (Some info) The DOS/MSW meltdown is progressing nicely
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 18:42:57 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
>                1992            1993
>Unix              18              28
>Mainframe         35              22
>DOS & MSW         24              18

Development of what?  In-house apps?  Maybe, but  certainly not apps
to be sold on an open market.  Statistics like that are laughable,
because they may simply mean that there are not enough shrink-wrapped
usable apps for UNIX and they have to be developed disproportionately
often as compared to the installed UNIX base.

t.

