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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX Peculiarities
Message-ID: <1989Sep5.193948.14894@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 89 19:39:48 GMT
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From article <2534@shaffer.UUCP>, by jon@shaffer.UUCP (Jon Doran/60000):
> In article <16655@ut-emx.UUCP>, nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
> 
>> Also, there is a lot to be said about the bottom line--the RT
>                                                          ^^^^^^
>> has simply not sold as well as workstations produced by other
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> vendors. It should not be to hard to determine why. The RT
>   ^^^^^^^^
> 
> OK, so IBM is not winning any popularity contests.  And I agree
> that there is plenty of room for improvement...  But IBM is
> ranked 4th in workstation sales.  I'm not sure if this is by
> unit or by sales.
> 	1.  HP	(includes Apollo Div)
> 	2.  Sun
> 	3.  ???
> 	4.  IBM
> 
the ??? would be DEC. The percentage of installed systems that I've seen
mentioned in recent trade-rags in something like:

1 HP/Apollo = > 30%
2 Sun ~ 30%
3 DEC ~ 23%
4 IBM ~ 2%

and then all the others.


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Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu