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  1. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel
  3. From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
  4. Subject: Re: Industry market shares
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160142.7877@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  6. Keywords: Microsoft
  7. Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
  8. References: <1993Jan20.175346.14193@netcom.com>
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:01:42 GMT
  10. Lines: 27
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan20.175346.14193@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
  13. writes:
  14. >      The Wall Street Journal today published the PC software industry
  15. >figures for 1992.
  16. >
  17. >            1992    1991
  18. >    Microsoft    44%    29%
  19. >    Lotus        11%    13%
  20. >    Word Perfect     8%     8%
  21. >
  22. >    Top 5 companies    74%    60%
  23. >
  24. [...]
  25. >It's especially striking in that Lotus and Word Perfect are still
  26. >one-product companies, despite attempts to introduce other products.
  27.  
  28.      Isn't the Ami word processor doing reasonably well?  The figures
  29. John shows give no indication of the breakdown among products within
  30. these companies.
  31.  
  32. >There's nothing to
  33. >stop Microsoft from having it all.
  34.  
  35. ...except American law.
  36.  
  37.                 Marc R. Roussel
  38.                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
  39.