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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!usc!not-for-mail
  2. From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: Sales figures on workstation vendors?
  5. Date: 24 Jan 1993 19:31:33 -0800
  6. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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  8. Message-ID: <1jvmulINNrod@almaak.usc.edu>
  9. References: <1993Jan24.195151.3645@wam.umd.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu
  11.  
  12. rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
  13.  
  14. >    Can anyone give me (or tell me where I might find) the figures
  15. >    on workstations sold for Sun, HP, IBM, NeXT, Dec and Data General?
  16.  
  17. Sorry, does not quite address your question, but this is one of the
  18. few bits of data I have:
  19.  
  20. From Unix World, Jan 1993
  21.  
  22. World computer market share (%)
  23. -------------------------------
  24.  
  25.                                 1991            1996
  26.  
  27. DOS, Windows, Netware           37.0            40.0
  28. Unix                            11.6            21.0
  29. IBM Mainframe                   17.4            14.4
  30. VAX/VMS                          3.7             2.6
  31. IBM minis                        4.1             4.0
  32. Macintosh                        3.6             4.6
  33. Other                           22.6            13.4
  34.  
  35. Totally                         $155e9
  36.  
  37. 1996 projections are by IDC
  38.  
  39.  
  40. 1993 Unix hardware sales
  41. ------------------------
  42.  
  43.                         Units           $billion        installed-base
  44.  
  45. Workstations            876k            14.1            2.755e6
  46. Midrange                583k             7.4            0.931e6
  47. Large-scale             223              1.8            673
  48. PC Unix                 425k             0.6            1.813e6
  49.  
  50. Total                   1.46e6          23.9e9          6.535e6
  51.  
  52. Source: ITG
  53. (Interesting to note $24 billion is sortof consistent with the previous
  54. table).
  55. -- 
  56. Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
  57.