Denys wrote:
[snip]
>  Before someone jumps in, yes
> the HP 3000 has a lot of these functions also, but remember that last year
> (1996) Windows NT Server was sold to the tune of 550,000 and Windows NT
> workstation sold 3.4 millions.  PC UNIX sales dropped to 373,000, all these
> numbers are from Dataquest, August 1996. I am not aware of the number of now
> HP 3000s sold, but I would venture to say it is not very close to the
> preceding numbers. (More numbers? Ok.  For 1996, Windows 95 sold 46 million
> unit (for a cumulative total of close to 65 million; Windows 3.x sold 21
> million, down from 40 million in 1995; Mac OS sold 5.4 million up from 4.8
> million; DOS (no Windows) sold 2 million down from 4; OS/2 sold 1.9 million,
> up from 1.7; Netware sold 606,000 up from 509,000; Windows NT WS sold 3.4
> million up from 961,000; Windows NT Server sold 550,000 up from 318,000; and
> finally UNIX sold 373,000 down from 382,000.)
[snip]

I just wish someone had the data and would publish the number of people
depending on these various boxes and the percentage of time they are using
them, so that we could all see the impact of those machines with smaller
numbers of units, but lots of people using them. Of course, we would have to
include Mainframes.

Richard Gambrell