Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:33:42 -0600 From: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, "'Wes Peters'" <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <01BCD442.9D961500@ip185-198.konnections.com>
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Bottom line is: What is purchased, what is installed and what is USED..... How many of those NT purchasers pass their discs along to others? How many people are downloading NT to run and not purchasing anything?? It's all insipid, anyway. FreeOSs are not in competition with Microsoft anything. They are a viable alternative and, in may cases, a viable supplement to Corporate OS. I've seen (we've all seen) Gov't offices, military offices, commercial. etc where a FreeOS, CommUnix, and NT (or else?) cohabitate and work together..... Who cares how many NTs ship? Who cares what peaks? NO ONE has FreeOS sales numbers because it's not a license, so it's ever irrelevant... Mike Allison ---------- From: Wes Peters Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 1997 10:49 PM To: Peter Dufault Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) But, sir, his numbers don't jive with the report I forwarded here last month, from a generally well-respected research firm, that indicated the *total* UNIX marketplace currently as being something like *40 times* the size of the *total* NT marketplace. Again, I agree with Mike: he must *not* have done his research very carefully. > The fact is that WNT will ship more than Unix if it hasn't already, > I was just surprised that it had happened. Don't be surprised when you find out it hasn't happened, and that your compatriots figures were, shall we say, fictitious. From whence does he devine the total number of NT sales? I've never seen Microsoft release those figures. Likewise with Solaris, SCO, HP-UX, AIX, et al.
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